ofessor  William  Henry  Green 's 
Semi-Centennial  Celebration 


1846-1896 


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Celebration  of  the  fiftieth 
anniversary  of  the 


With  the  Compliments  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary. 


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CELEBRATION 


OF    THE 


FIFTIETH    ANNIVERSARY 

OF    THE    APPOINTMENT    OF 

Professor  William  Henry  Green 

AS    AN    INSTRUCTOR    IN 
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Princeton  Theological  Seminary 
May  £,  1896 


MTH    A    PORTRAIT 


NEW  YORK 

CHARLES   SCRIBNER'S    SONS 
1896 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


Introduction,     . 

ADDRESSES 

i 

Dr.  Gosman's  Address,    . 

.     16 

Dr.  Mead's  Address, 

.     20 

Dr.  McCurdy's  Address, 

•     3i 

Dr.  Patton's  Address, 

•     37 

Dr.  Green's  Reply, 

.     44 

CONGRATULATORY   ADDRESSES 

From  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America,  by 
Dr.  Booth, 

From  Our  Sister  Churches,  by  Dr.  McPheeters, 

From  Our  Sister  Seminaries,  by  Dr.  Beecher, 

From  Dr.  Green's  Alma  Mater,  by  Dr.  Warfield, 

From  the  Trustees  of  Princeton  College,  by  Dr.  Alexander, 

From  the  Old  Testament  Revision  Committee,  by  Dr.  Osgood, 


5i 

53 
56 
57 
59 
60 


AFTER-DINNER    SPEECHES 


The  "  Father  of  the  Man,"  by  Dr.  Cattell, 
Our  Fellow-Student,  by  Dr.  Cuyler, 
The  Young  Professor,  by  Dr.  Taylor, 


65 
68 

72 


iv  TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 

PAGE 

The  Established  Teacher,  by  Dr.  Griffin,  .  .         .         .         -76 

The  Learned  Doctor,  by  Dr.  Fox,     .......     80 

The  Head  of  the  Faculty,  by  Professor  Paxton,  .         .         .         .84 

APPENDIX 

TESTIMONIALS  AND  LETTERS  OF  REGRET 

From  Institutions  of  Learning  and  Associations,         .  .  .  -89 

From  Individuals,    ..........    132 

Press  Articles,         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .  .156 

Bibliography, 181 


INTRODUCTORY    ACCOUNT 


At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  Princeton 
Theological  Seminary,  held  in  Princeton,  October  8,  1895,  the 
following  action  was  taken  : 

"  The  Board  of  Directors,  calling  to  mind  the  fact  that  this 
Seminary  year  will  complete  the  period  of  a  half-century  since 
the  appointment  of  Dr.  William  Henry  Green  as  an  Instructor 
in  this  institution,  therefore,  in  view  of  the  pre-eminently  valu- 
able and  protracted  services  which  Dr.  Green,  in  the  provi- 
dence of  God,  has  been  enabled  to  render  as  an  Instructor  and 
Professor  in  this  institution,  the  Board  deem  it  due  to  Dr. 
Green,  to  ourselves,  and  to  the  cause  of  truth  that  some  suitable 
and  proper  official  and  public  recognition  of  the  same  should  be 
had  at  the  proper  time,  the  close  of  this  Seminary  year,  the 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  his  appointment.     Therefore, 

Resolved,  That  a  Committee  of  five  members  of  this 
Board,  consisting  of  three  ministers  and  two  laymen,  be  ap- 
pointed, with  power,  in  co-operation  with  a  Committee  of  the 
Trustees,  a  Committee  of  the  Faculty,  and  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  Seminary,  to  make  all 
needful  arrangements  for  such  anniversary  services." 

In  accordance  with  this  resolution,  the  following  Committee 
of  the  Board  of  Directors  was  appointed :  the  Rev.  Ebenezer 
Erskine,  D.D.,  Chairman,  the  Rev.  George  D.  Baker,  D.D., 
the  Rev.  Robert  R.  Booth,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  George  Junkin, 
LL.D.,  and  Logan  C.  Murray,  Esq. ;  and  the  Secretary  of  the 
Board  was  directed  to  send  copies  of  the  above  action  to  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  to  the  Faculty,  and  to  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  Alumni  Association.  On  the  15th  of  October  the 
Faculty  appointed  as  the  Committee  called  for  by  the  action 


4  INTRODUCTORY  ACCOUNT 

of  the  Directors,  Professors  B.  B.  Warfield,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  John 
D.  Davis,  Ph.D.,  and  George  T.  Purves,  D.D.,  LL.D.  The 
Trustees,  at  their  meeting  held  on  October  30th,  appointed  to 
represent  them  the  Rev.  Abraham  Gosman,  D.D.,  the  Rev. 
John  D.  Wells,  D.D.,  and  the  Rev.  Edward  B.  Hodge,  D.D. 

On  the  1 2th  of  November  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
Alumni  Association,  consisting  of  the  Rev.  William  E.  Schenck, 
D.D.,  the  Rev.  John  Fox,  D.D.,  the  Rev.  Joseph  H.  Dulles, 
the  Rev.  W.  Brenton  Greene,  D.D.,  the  Rev.  Samuel  J.  Milli- 
ken,  the  Rev.  Benjamin  S.  Everitt,  D.D.,  and  the  Rev.  Newell 
W.  Wells,  held  a  meeting  and  resolved  to  recommend  to  the 
Association  that  in  view  of  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  an- 
niversary of  Professor  Green's  connection  with  the  Seminary 
as  an  Instructor,  the  Association  consume  only  so  much  time 
at  its  annual  meeting  as  is  necessary  for  the  election  of  officers 
for  the  ensuing  year  and  the  hearing  of  the  customary  reports. 

The  General  Committee,  composed  of  the  several  commit- 
tees of  the  Board  of  Directors,  the  Board  of  Trustees,  and  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  Alumni  Association,  met  in  Alex- 
ander Hall,  November  12,  1895.  The  Rev.  Dr.  Gosman  was 
elected  Chairman  and  the  Rev.  B.  S.  Everitt,  D.D.,  Secretary. 
A  general  outline  of  the  programme  for  the  celebration,  to  take 
place  on  Commencement  Day,  May  5,  1896,  was  adopted. 
This  was  afterward  modified  in  some  slight  particulars.  Dr. 
Erskine,  together  with  the  Committee  of  the  Faculty,  was  made 
a  Committee  of  Arrangements  to  perfect  the  programme.  A 
Committee  on  Invitations  was  appointed,  consisting  of  the 
Rev.  Joseph  H.  Dulles,  Professor  Warfield,  Dean  J.  O.  Murray, 
the  Rev.  Newell  W.  Wells,  and  the  Rev.  Howard  Duffield, 
D.D.  The  following  were  appointed  a  Committee  on  Fi- 
nance: George  Junkin,  LL.D.,  the  Rev.  R.  R.  Booth,  D.D., 
LL.D.,  and  the  Rev.  E.  B.  Hodge,  D.D.  The  Trustees  present 
were  requested  to  call  the  attention  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
to  the  desirability  of  securing  a  further  endowment  of  the  Sem- 
inary in  connection  with  the  celebration  of  the  semi-centennial 
of  Dr.  Green's  services.  The  Rev.  Chalmers  Martin  was  later 
added  to  the  General  Committee,  to  take  charge  of  the  enter- 
tainment of  specially  invited  guests. 


INTRODUCTORY  ACCOUNT  5 

Through  the  labors  of  the  above  committees  the  arrange- 
ments for  the  celebration  were  completed.  One  change  of  mo- 
ment in  the  programme  was  occasioned  by  the  lamented  death  of 
the  Rev.  Talbot  W.  Chambers,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  who  had  accepted 
the  appointment  to  make  one  of  the  principal  addresses,  that 
upon  Dr.  Green's  services  to  the  Church  at  large.  President 
Patton,  of  Princeton  College,  consented  to  take  his  place,  as 
will  hereafter  appear.  An  invitation  in  the  following  form  was 
sent  the  officers  of  the  Seminary,  to  its  living  benefactors,  to  its 
alumni,  to  American  Semitic  scholars,  to  the  theological  insti- 
tutions of  this  country,  as  well  as  to  the  more  closely  affiliated 
colleges,  and  to  the  theological  faculties  of  Europe : 

THE   THEOLOGICAL   SEMINARY   OF   THE 

PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  IN  THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA, 

AT   PRINCETON,   NEW  JERSEY, 

REQUESTS   THE   HONOR   OF   YOUR   PRESENCE 

ON    TUESDAY,   MAY   THE   FIFTH, 

EIGHTEEN   HUNDRED   AND     NINETY-SIX, 

AT   THE   CELEBRATION   OF  THE   FIFTIETH   ANNIVERSARY 

OF  THE   APPOINTMENT   OF 

PROFESSOR   WILLIAM   HENRY   GREEN 

AS   AN   INSTRUCTOR   IN   THE   SEMINARY. 

The  replies  received  indicated  a  very  widespread  and  warm 
interest  in  the  celebration.  Many  of  the  letters  of  regret  from 
institutions  that  could  not  send  a  representative  and  from  indi- 
viduals who  could  not  attend  will  be  found  published  at  the 
close  of  this  volume. 

What  may  well  be  termed  the  most  notable  Commence- 
ment Day  in  the  history  of  the  Seminary  began  with  the  usual 
graduation  exercises  in  Miller  Chapel.  These  were  followed 
by  a  brief  meeting  of  the  Alumni  Association.  Upon  its  ad- 
journment a  procession  was  formed  in  the  Seminary  campus 
under  the  marshalship  of  Professor  William  Libbey,  of  the  Col- 


6  INTRODUCTORY  ACCOUNT 

lege,  and  marched  in  the  following  order  to  Alexander  Hall,  on 
the  College  campus,  which  was  kindly  put  at  the  disposition  of 
the  Committee  by  the  College  authorities : 

Presiding  Officers 

Representatives  of  other  Institutions 

Directors  of  the  Seminary 

Trustees  of  the  Seminary 

Speakers  of  the  Day 

Faculty  of  the  Seminary 

Trustees  and  Faculty  of  the  College 

Invited  Guests 

Alumni  of  the  Seminary  by  Classes 

Graduating  Class 

Undergraduates. 

Dr.  Green  met  the  procession  in  Alexander  Hall,  which 
was  filled  to  its  utmost  capacity.  The  programme  that  follows 
was  successfully  carried  out.  There  was  found  to  be  no  time 
to  read  the  selected  letters  of  regret  received  from  institutions 
and  individuals.  Instead  of  this,  Dr.  Schenck  made  a  few  re- 
marks with  reference  to  the  number  and  warmth  of  these  letters 
and  Dean  Murray  made  the  announcement,  which  was  received 
with  much  enthusiasm,  that  it  was  proposed  to  mark  the  com- 
pletion of  Dr.  Green's  fifty  years'  services  in  an  enduring  way 
by  the  raising  of  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  for  the  endow- 
ment of  a  William  Henry  Green  Memorial  Professorship  of 
Semitic  Languages. 


PrincetonTheological  Seminary 
Eighty  Fourth  Annual  Commencement. 

Fiftieth  Anniversary 

OF  THE  APPOINTMENT  OF 

ProfessorWilliam  HenryGreen.D.DILD. 

as  Instructor  in  the  Seminary 
Tuesday  May  5t.m 896. 


3ubilee  Celebration 

ALEXANDER  HALL,  AT  ELEVEN  O'CLOCK  A.M. 
Presided  over  by  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 


HYMN "I  Love  Thy  Kingdom,  Lord." 

PRAYER Thk  Rev.  John  Gulian  Lansing,  D.D. 

Professor  in  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Reformed  Church  in  America, 
at  New  Brunswick 

Opening  SoDress 

DR.  GREEN'S  SERVICES  TO  THE  SEMINARY    .    The  Rev.  Abraham  Gosman,  D.D. 
President  of  the  Board  of  Directors 

Booresees 

DR.  GREEN'S  CONTRIBUTION  TO  BIBLICAL  CRITICISM 

The  Rev.  Charles  M.  Mead,  Ph.D.,  D.D. 
Riley  Professor  of  Christian  Theology,  Hartford  Theological  Seminary 

DR.  GREEN'S  CONTRIBUTION  TO  SEMITIC  SCHOLARSHIP 

The  Rkv.  J.  F.  McCurdy,  Ph.D.,  LL.D. 
Professor  of  Oriental  Literature,  University  College,  Toronto 

DR.  GREEN'S  SERVICES  TO  THE  CHURCH  AT  LARGE 

The  Rev.  Francis  L.  Patton,  D.D.,  LL.D. 
President  of  Princeton  College 

TReplg  by>  professor  Oreen 
Congratulatory  BoDresses 

FROM 

THE   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH    IN   THE   U.  S.  A. 

The  Rev.  Robert  Russell  Booth,  D.D.,  LL.D. 
Moderator  of  the  General  Assembly 

OUR  SISTER  CHURCHES The  Rev.  \V.m.  M.  McPheeters,  D.D. 

Professor  in  Columbia  Theological  Seminary 

OUR  SISTER  SEMINARIES Thk    Rev.  Willis  J.  Beecher,  D.D. 

Professor  in  Auburn  Theological  Seminary 

DR.   GREENS   "ALMA    MATER'' Ethelbert  Dudley  Warfi  eld,  LL.D. 

President  of  Lafayette  College 

THE  TRUSTEES   OF   PRINCETON   COLLEGE      .     .      Henry  M.  Alexander,  LL.D. 

New  York  City 


THE   OLD   TESTAMENT   REVISION   COMMITTEE 

The  Rev.  Howard  Osgood,  D.D.,  LL.D. 
Professor  in  Rochester  Theological  Seminary 

IRepltes  to  Unvitations 

Read  by  the  Rev.  WM.  E.  SCHENCK,  D.D.    .    .    .    Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
H\  MN "Our  God  Stands  Firm,  a  Rock  and  Tow'r." 

Benediction 

By  the  Rev.  JOHN   H.   MUNRO,  D.D.    Pastor  of  the  Central  Presbyterian  Church,  Phila. 


Hlumni  Dinner 

UNIVERSITY    HALL,    AT   TWO   O'CLOCK    P.M. 

Presided  over  by  the  Rev.  WILLIAM  E.  SCHENCK,  D.D. 
President  of  the  Alumni  Association 

Blessing  asked  by  the  Rev.  ADOLPH  SPAETH,  D.D.,  Professor  in  the  Lutheran 
Theological  Seminary,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


"Kemfntecence  flbeettng 

ALEXANDER    HALL,    AT   THREE   O'CLOCK    P.M. 
Dr.  SCHENCK  Presiding. 


XToastB 

THE  "FATHER  OF  THE  MAN" 

The  Rev.  William  C.  Cattell,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Class  of  1852 
Sometime  President  of  Lafayette  College  ;  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Board 
of  Ministerial  Relief 

OUR  FELLOW  STUDENT    .    .    .     The  Rev.  Theodore  L.  Cuyler,  D.D.,  Class  of  1846 
Sometime  Pastor  of  the  Lafayette  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

THE  YOUNG  PROFESSOR    .    .    .    The  Rev.  A.  A.  E.  Taylor,  D.D.,  LL.D., Class  of  1857 
Pastor  of  the  Westminster  Presbyterian  Church,  Columbus,  O. 

THE  ESTABLISHED  TEACHER 

The  Rev.  Edward  H.  Griffin,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Class  of  1866 
Dean  of  the  Johns  Hopkins  University 

THE  LEARNED  DOCTOR The  Rev.  John  Fox,  D.D.,  Class  of  1876 

Pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

THE  HEAD  OF  THE  FACULTY 

The  Rev.  William  M.  Paxton,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Class  of  184S 
Professor  in  Princeton  Seminary 

Benediction 

By  Canon  ARTHUR  J.  MASON,  D.D.,  Lady  Margaret  Professor  of  Divinity 
in  Cambridge  University,  England 


io  INTRODUCTORY  ACCOUNT 

At  the  close  of  the  public  exercises  Professor  and  Mrs. 
Green  gave  a  reception  at  their  home,  on  Stockton  Street, 
which  was  largely  attended. 

The  following  institutions  were  represented  at  the  celebra- 
tion : 

The  theological  faculty  of  the  University  of  Cambridge, 
England,  by  Canon  A.  J.  Mason,  D.D.;  the  theological  faculty 
of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  by  Rev.  John  Hall,  D.D.,  LL.D., 
of  New  York  City ;  Princeton  College,  by  the  clerical  mem- 
bers of  its  faculty;  Auburn  Theological  Seminary,  by  Professor 
Willis  J.  Beecher,  D.D.;  McCormick  Theological  Seminary,  by 
Professor  Andrew  C.  Zenos,  D.D.;  German  Theological  Sem- 
inary of  Newark,  N.  J.,  by  President  Charles  E.  Knox,  D.D.; 
Lincoln  University,  by  Professors  J.  Aspinwall  Hodge,  D.D., 
and  William  D.  Kerswill,  A.M.;  Omaha  Theological  Seminary, 
by  Professor  William  W.  Harsha,  D.D.,  LL.D.;  Western 
Theological  Seminary,  by  Professor  Robert  D.  Wilson,  D.D.; 
Columbia  Theological  Seminary,  by  Professor  Wm.  M.  Mc- 
Pheeters,  D.D.;  Yale  Divinity  School,  by  Professor  George  P. 
Fisher,  D.D.,  LL.D.;  Harvard  Divinity  School,  by  Professor 
Crawford  H.  Toy,  D.D.;  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  by 
Professor  George  F.  Moore,  D.D.;  Hartford  Theological  Sem- 
inary, by  Professor  Charles  M.  Mead,  Ph.D.,  D.D.;  University 
of  Chicago,  by  President  William  R.  Harper,  D.D.,  LL.D.; 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  by  Provost  C.  C.  Harrison,  LL.D.; 
Rochester  Theological  Seminary,  by  Professor  Howard  Osgood, 
D.D.,  LL.D.;  Crozer  Theological  Seminary,  by  Professor  B.  C. 
Taylor,  D.D.;  Xenia  Theological  Seminary,  by  Professor  David 
MacDill,  D.D.;  Theological  Department  of  Howard  Univer- 
sity, by  Dean  J.  S.  Ewell,  D.D.;  Baptist  Theological  Seminary, 
Louisville,  Ky.,  by  President  W.  H.  Whitsitt,  D.D.;  Hamilton 
Theological  Seminary,  by  Professor  William  H.  Maynard,  D.D.; 
Meadville  Theological  School  (Unitarian),  by  Rev.  Joseph  May, 
LL.D.;  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Evangelical  Lutheran 
Church  in  Philadelphia,  by  Professors  Adolph  Spaeth,  D.D., 
and  George  F.  Spieker,  Ph.D.,  D.D.;  Rutgers  College,  by 
Professors  Jacob  Cooper,  S.T.D.,  D.C.L.,  John  H.  Duryea, 
D.D.,  and  Charles  E.  Hart,  D.D.;  Seminary  of  the  Reformed 


INTRODUCTORY  ACCOUNT  n 

Church  in  America  at  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,  by  Professor 
Samuel  M.  Woodbridge,  D.D.,  LL.D.;  Amherst  College,  by- 
Professor  H.  H.  Neill ;  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Evan- 
gelical Lutheran  Church  at  Chicago,  by  President  R.  F.  Weid- 
ner,  D.D.,  LL.D.;  General  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  Church,  by  Dean  Eugene  A.  Hoffman,  D.D., 
D.C.L.,  LL.D.;  Department  of  Theology  in  Oberlin  College, 
by  Professor  G.  Frederic  Wright,  D.D.,  LL.D.;  Protestant 
Episcopal  Theological  Seminary  of  Virginia,  by  Professor 
Angus  Crawford,  D.D.;  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Reformed 
Church  at  Lancaster,  Pa.,  by  Professor  F.  A.  Gast,  D.D.;  La- 
fayette College,  by  President  Ethelbert  D.  Warfield,  LL.D., 
Rev.  William  C.  Cattell,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  and  George  Junkin, 
LL.D. 

The  following  brief  sketch  of  Professor  Green's  life  is  taken 
from  the  Princeton  Press  of  May  9,  1896: 

William  Henry  Green  was  born  at  Groveville,  near  Prince- 
ton, January  27,  1825.  He  is  a  descendant  of  Jonathan 
Dickinson,  the  first  President  of  Princeton  College.  His  father 
was  a  successful  merchant.  One  of  his  uncles  was  Chancellor 
of  New  Jersey  and  another  was  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Errors 
and  Appeals.  The  eldest  of  his  father's  brothers  was  the  late 
John  C.  Green,  of  New  York  City,  to  whose  princely  benefac- 
tions during  his  lifetime  and  his  munificent  bequests  the  Col- 
lege, the  Seminary,  and  the  Lawrenceville  School  are  so  largely 
indebted  for  buildings  and  endowments.  Dr.  Green  was  grad- 
uated with  honors  at  Lafayette  College  before  he  was  sixteen 
years  old,  and  immediately  upon  his  graduation  was  made  a 
tutor,  and  held  that  position  for  two  years.  He  then  entered  the 
Princeton  Theological  Seminary  in  1842,  and  remained  there 
for  a  year,  when  Lafayette  recalled  him  to  the  position  of 
Instructor  in  Mathematics.  After  a  year's  service  he  returned 
to  the  Seminary,  completed  his  course,  and  was  graduated  in 
1846.  The  same  year  he  was  appointed  Instructor  in  Hebrew 
in  the  Seminary.  He  has  remained  in  this  department  from 
that  date  to  the  present  with  the  exception  of  two  years,  1849- 
51,  when  he  was  pastor  of  the  Central  Presbyterian  Church, 


12  INTRODUCTORY  ACCOUNT 

Philadelphia.  His  literary  labors,  aside  from  the  duties  of  his 
professorship,  have  been  abundant.*  Scores  of  articles  in  the 
Biblical  Repertory,  the  Princeton  and  Presbyterian  Reviews, 
and  other  journals  have  been  written  by  him,  for  the  most  part 
on  Old  Testament  and  philological  subjects.  His  published 
volumes  include  his  Hebrew  Grammar,  "The  Pentateuch 
Vindicated  from  the  Aspersions  of  Bishop  Colenso,"  "  Hebrew 
Chrestomathy,"  "Elementary  Hebrew  Grammar,"  "The  Song 
of  Solomon"  in  Lange's  Commentary,  "The  Book  of  Job  Un- 
folded," "Moses  and  the  Prophets,"  "The  Hebrew  Feasts," 
"The  Higher  Criticism  of  the  Pentateuch,"  and  "The  Unity 
of  the  Book  of  Genesis." 

After  the  resignation  of  Dr.  John  Maclean,  in  1868,  he  was 
elected  President  of  Princeton  College,  but  declined.  He 
was  the  Chairman  of  the  Old  Testament  Section  of  the  Amer- 
ican Bible  Revision  Committee,  and  was  Moderator  of  the 
Presbyterian  General  Assembly  in  1891.  His  degree  of  doctor 
of  divinity  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Princeton  College  in 
1857,  and  by  the  University  of  Edinburgh  in  1884.  His  degree 
of  doctor  of  laws  he  received  from  Rutgers  College  in  1873. 
Standing  as  one  of  the  foremost  Old  Testament  scholars,  Dr. 
Green  has  also  been  eminently  successful  as  an  instructor,  and 
has  won  the  affection  of  all  his  students  by  his  modest,  un- 
assuming and  sympathetic  personality. 

*  For  a  complete  bibliography  see  the  close  of  this  volume. 


OPENING  PRAYER  AND   ADDRESSES 


PRAYER 

BY   THE   REV.    PROFESSOR   JOHN   GULIAN   LANSING,   D.D. 

Above  the  thrice  holy  cry  of  the  Seraphim,  Thou  delightest 
to  hear  the  praises  and  prayers  of  Thy  children,  O  Lord  God 
Almighty.  We  praise  Thee  because  Thou  art  our  Covenant 
Jehovah.  We  praise  Thee  because  of  Thy  goodness,  which  is 
great,  and  Thy  loving  kindnesses,  which  have  endured  forever. 
We  praise  Thee  because  Thou  art  our  Good  Shepherd,  leading 
us  into  the  pastures  of  Thy  love  and  by  the  waters  still  as 
Thine  own  deep  peace.  We  praise  Thee  especially  because 
Thou  hast  brought  us  to  this  day  wherein  we  celebrate  the 
long-continued  and  faithful  usefulness  of  Thy  servant. 

We  praise  Thee  because  Thou  hast  given  this  Thy  servant 
to  this  place,  and  this  State,  and  this  land,  and  this  world.  We 
praise  Thee  for  all  that  he  has  been  enabled  to  do  through 
the  Spirit  of  Jehovah  resting  upon  him.  We  praise  Thee  for 
what  he  has  done  in  Thy  service  in  the  interpretation,  the 
defence,  and  the  proclamation  of  divine  truth.  We  praise 
Thee  because  Thou  hast  so  continued  his  life  and  filled  his  life 
with  blessings,  and,  through  his  life,  blessed  others.  We  thank 
Thee  that  through  his  instruction  Thou  hast  given  many  the 
knowledge  of  the  Word,  who  have  gone  forth  to  proclaim  that 
Word  throughout  the  world.  We  pray  Thee,  our  Heavenly 
Father,  that  Thou  will  continue  his  life  of  usefulness  unto  us, 
and  unto  Thy  Church,  and  unto  those  whom  he  equips  for 
blessed  usefulness  in  the  field  of  the  world.  Grant  to  him,  we 
beseech  of  Thee,  all  the  blessings  that  come  from  Father,  Son, 
and  Holy  Spirit.  Let  there  evermore  rest  upon  him  the  spirit 
of  wisdom  and  understanding,  the  spirit  of  counsel  and  of 
might,  the  spirit  of  knowledge  and  of  the  fear  of  Jehovah.  We 
ask  it  all  for  Thy  name's  sake.     Amen. 


16  ADDRESSES 

DR.  GREEN'S  SERVICES  TO   THE   SEMINARY. 

by  the  rev.  abraham  gosman,  d.d. 

My  dear  Dr.  Green  : 

In  the  name  of  the  Directors  and  Trustees,  I  welcome  you 
to  this  fiftieth  anniversary  of  your  office  and  work  in  this  Sem- 
inary. We  may  well  congratulate  anyone  whose  life-work  is  so 
nearly  rounded  and  complete;  who  can  look  upon  the  product 
of  his  toil  and  say,  not  without  regrets  as  to  his  failures  and  a 
painful  consciousness  that  it  comes  far  short  of  his  own  ideal, 
yet  with  a  large  measure  of  truth,  and  with  entire  reverence, 
"  It  is  finished."  It  was  a  wise  act  when  the  General  Assembly 
selected  you  for  this  chair,  which  you  have  filled  with  such  con- 
spicuous success,  and  we  rejoice  with  you  to-day  in  the  mel- 
lowed fruits  which  we  have  gathered  and  in  the  promise  which 
greets  us  when  the  autumn  sun  shall  have  ripened  those  not 
yet  fully  matured. 

To  train  those  who  are  to  preach  the  Gospel :  there  is  no 
higher  office  and  none  more  fruitful  or  wide-reaching  in  its 
influence.  Our  Lord  Jesus  Himself  devoted  a  large  part  of  His 
ministerial  life  to  this  end.  He  taught  the  multitude,  but  it 
was  the  inner  circle  of  the  Twelve,  to  whom  He  unfolded  the 
mysteries  of  His  kingdom.  He  brought  them  into  the  closest 
relation  to  Himself,  and  was  ever  training  them  for  their  great 
work.  This  was  the  first  theological  seminary,  and  they  were 
highly  favored  who  sat  in  its  seats  and  listened  to  the  Great 
Teacher.  He  opened  to  them  the  Scriptures.  He  ever  found 
the  germs  and  roots  of  his  doctrine  in  the  Old  Testament 
Scriptures,  and  thus  set  his  seal  upon  their  inspiration.  He 
believed  in  Moses,  as  you  believe  in  him  and  have  given  us  such 
good  reason  for  your  faith.  He  trained  them  in  the  Word  and 
in  the  method  of  His  service,  and  in  this  teaching  laid  the  foun- 
dation of  His  kingdom.  It  was  a  most  practical  theology,  as  all 
true  theological  teaching  is  and  must  be.  For  it  deals  with 
those  truths  which  are  the  great  moving  force  in  the  hearts  and 
lives  of  men,  which  stir  most  deeply  all  the  fountains  of  Chris- 


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tian  feeling,  which  strengthen  all  the  motives  to  Christian  ac- 
tivity and  effort,  which  keep  aflame  the  life  of  devotion  and 
love,  and  yield  their  fruit  unto  holiness.  This  most  effective 
and  fruitful  life  has  been  yours,  and  we  rejoice,  therefore,  in  the 
success  which  crowns  your  life-work  to-day.  May  I  say  it  is  a 
rare  and  unsullied  crown  which  you  so  fitly  wear? 

Your  service  here  stands  closely  related  to  the  Seminary  it- 
self  in    its  individual    life  and  history.     Every  institution  like 
this  has  its  specific  life  and   character,  more  or  less  distinctly 
marked,  known  and  read  of  all  men.     It  shares  in  the  common 
life  of  the  Church  and  has  its  individual  features  shaped  some- 
what by  the  circumstances  in  which  it  had  its  origin,  somewhat 
by  its  surroundings  in  the  line  of  its  progress,  but  chiefly  by  the 
men  who  have  taught   here.     It   has  never  sought  unduly  to 
assert  itself,  but  neither  has  it  shunned  the  call  which  the  in- 
terests of  the  truth  and  the  kingdom  of  Christ  have  made.     It 
has  studied  the  peace  and  quiet  of  the  Church,  but  not  by  the 
sacrifice  of  its  faith.      It  has  let  its  moderation  be  known  to  all 
men,  but  has  never  wavered  in  its  adherence  to  the  truth.     It 
stands  by  the  inspired  Word  of  God  in  its  completeness,  the 
only  norm  of  its  faith  and  teaching.     It  holds  with  unwaver- 
ing confidence  the  system  of  truth  it  finds  in  the  Word,  but  has 
never  claimed    that    there    must  be   an  iron  rigidity  in  every 
form    of   expression   or  in    every  particular   feature   the  truth 
wears.     It  recognizes  that  in  the  progress  of  Christian   learn- 
ing,   in    the    growing    acquaintance    with    oriental    modes   of 
thought,  in   the  wider  experience  of  believers,  and  especially 
in  the  larger  gifts  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  there  is  reason  to  hope 
that  greater  light    may   be   thrown  upon    the   Word    and  the 
Church    come    into    the  fuller    possession  of   its  heritage.     It 
waits  for  that  fuller  light  with  supreme  confidence  as  to  the 
issue.     It  makes  no  boastful  claim  to  any  exclusive  possession 
of  the  truth.      It  gladly  recognizes  that  there  are  other  institu- 
tions standing   along  the  same    line  and   sharing  its    respon- 
sibilities.    But  it  does  claim  that  it  stands  for  Christ  and  the 
truth,  the  incarnate  and   the  written   Word.     Its   history  fully 
vindicates  its  claim.     In   the  conflict  between    faith    and    un- 
belief it  has  never  given  an  uncertain  sound.     This  is  its  crown 


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of  glory,  this  gives  it  its  individual  life  and  character,  recognized 
alike  by  friends  and  foes. 

Now,  it  is  a  grand  thing,  surely,  to  contribute  in  any  measure 
to  the  fulness  and  richness  of  that  life.  Hence  we  come  to-day, 
and  with  thankfulness  to  God,  who  gave  you  to  us,  we  recognize 
your  great  service  to  this  institution,  as  you  have  taken  up  the 
reins  which  have  fallen  into  your  hands  from  the  illustrious 
men  who  have  gone  before  you,  and  have  guided  it  in  its  course 
and  work  through  trials  and  perils  and  vigorous  controversy,  so 
that  now,  with  its  full  and  admirable  equipment  and  a  steadfast 
reliance  upon  God,  it  goes  with  a  clear  eye,  a  strong  hand,  and 
steady  step  to  its  work  in  the  future  for  Christ,  for  the  Word  of 
God,  and  for  the  redemption  of  the  world. 

But  this  direct  service  to  the  Seminary  lies  within  com- 
paratively narrow  limits.  It  cannot  be  separated  from  its 
wider  sphere  in  those  who  have  gone  out  into  the  field,  moved, 
impelled,  and  qualified  here  for  their  work.  If  we  would  see 
the  teacher  in  his  true  character  and  service,  we  must  see  him 
not  as  he  is  in  the  seclusion  of  the  study,  or  in  the  class-room, 
not  merely  in  the  fruits  of  his  pen,  but  in  the  ever  widening 
circle  of  those  who  have  been  with  him  and  learned  of  him. 
The  vast  mountain  peak  which  stands  out  clearly  defined  upon 
the  distant  horizon  impresses  us  as  we  look  upon  it ;  it  grows 
in  our  conception  of  its  size  and  power,  but  we  get  no  adequate 
apprehension  of  it,  we  form  no  accurate  judgment  of  its  magnifi- 
cence until  we  see  it  encircled  by  peaks  of  greater  or  less  promi- 
nence, all  clothed  with  forest  and  verdure  and  beauty,  as  their 
roots  strike  into  the  broad  plain  upon  which  all  are  based  ;  nor 
do  the  streams  which  come  from  the  central  mount  lose  their 
sweetness  and  healthfulness,  though  tinged,  it  may  be,  by  the 
soil  through  which  they  have  passed.  As  we  look  upon  those 
who  have  gone  out  from  this  institution  into  the  wide  field  of 
the  world,  men  of  every  grade  of  culture  and  power,  but  all 
men  of  faith  and  prayer,  we  begin  to  see,  we  only  begin — the 
full  results  are  not  reached  with  the  lapse  of  fifty  years — we 
begin  to  see  what  the  service  of  that  man  must  be  who  stimu- 
lates and  strengthens  and  guides  them  in  their  course.  We 
see  the  teacher  in  the  men  of  faith  and  power  whom  he  has 


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trained.  The  life  of  the  Seminary  comes  to  its  richest  fruitage 
in  the  works  which  these  men  have  wrought.  They  have  not 
been  idlers  or  mere  spectators  in  the  world's  progress.  There 
is  scarcely  a  line  of  human  thought  or  energy  in  which  they 
have  not  risen  to  distinction.  They  have  been  a  mighty  factor 
in  all  that  is  true  and  good.  They  have  explored  and  culti- 
vated and  widened  new  fields  of  human  knowledge.  They 
have  enriched  the  world's  literature  by  their  contributions. 
They  have  been  pioneers.  Human  tongues  have  been  reduced 
to  writing,  and  great  races  have  been  started  on  the  lines  of 
progress,  to  whose  mighty  tread  the  world  has  not  yet  ceased 
to  listen.  Civilization  follows  in  the  wake  of  their  toil. 
Science  owes  a  large  debt  to  their  contributions.  And  to-day 
the  Seminary  rejoices  in  their  power,  their  usefulness,  and 
their  promise. 

It  would  be  an  easy  and  a  grateful  task  to  trace  all  this  fruit- 
age, in  large  part  at  least,  to  the  influence  and  tireless  toil  of 
their  teacher.  But  now  we  turn  from  the  works  of  others  and 
take  up  our  Hebrew  grammar,  with  its  roots,  inflexions,  and  syn- 
tax ;  we  walk  with  Job  in  the  furnace  of  trial,  and  share  in  his 
vindication  and  the  triumph  of  his  faith  and  patience ;  we  sit 
down  as  invited  guests  at  the  Hebrew  feasts  in  their  historical 
and  typical  import ;  we  open  our  Pentateuch  as  it  comes  to  us  out 
of  the  fires  of  criticism,  and  are  sure  that  we  have  it  as  Moses 
gave  it  to  us,  as  it  has  lived  and  shaped  the  faith  of  the  ages, 
as  it  bears  the  seal  of  Christ  Himself,  and  without  the  smell  of 
fire  upon  it.  With  these  fruits  of  your  toil  in  our  hands,  and 
with  a  heartfelt  satisfaction  in  your  fifty  years  of  successful  toil 
which  we  cannot  express,  and  a  consciousness  of  our  indebted- 
ness which  we  can  never  repay,  we  say,  Welcome,  dear  and 
honored  Sir ;  thanks,  beloved  Teacher  and  Friend. 


20  ADDRESSES 

DR.   GREEN'S   CONTRIBUTION  TO   BIBLICAL 
CRITICISM. 

BY   THE   REV.    PROFESSOR   CHARLES   M.    MEAD,   D.D. 

A  German  adage  says,  "  Jubilaen  sind  Ululaen,"  which 
may  be  freely  rendered,  "  Jubilations  are  tribulations."  That 
is  to  say,  the  man  whose  Jubilee  others  most  gladly  celebrate 
may  well  be  one  who  is  so  keenly  aware  of  his  shortcomings 
that  the  commendations  given  seem  undeserved,  and  therefore 
painful.  To  be  praised  to  one's  face  is  an  ordeal  which  can  be 
passed  through  without  embarrassment  only  by  one  who  is  so 
self-satisfied  that  he  had  better  not  be  praised  at  all.  What 
then  ?  Shall  we  now  put  a  seal  on  our  lips,  lest  we  offend  the 
modesty  of  him  on  whose  account  we  have  come  together  ? 
Nay,  verily  ;  for  our  part  is  to  commemorate  services  for  which 
the  Christian  public  has  occasion  to  be  grateful.  We  must 
judge  for  ourselves  whether  we  are  warranted  in  doing  so;  and 
if  he  who  has  rendered  the  services  deprecates  the  praise,  we 
will  praise  him  all  the  more  for  the  modesty  which  deprecates 
it. 

It  falls  to  me  to  speak  of  Professor  Green  as  one  who  has 
been  prominent  in  the  department  of  Biblical  criticism.  The 
spirit  of  inquiry  which  marks  the  present  century  has  not  made 
an  exception  of  the  books  held  sacred  by  Christendom.  New 
discoveries  concerning  the  institutions,  religions,  and  languages 
of  extinct  nations  have  been  made  to  throw  light  on  Jewish 
history  and  Jewish  literature.  There  has  also  been  made  a 
microscopic  examination  of  that  literature  itself,  a  comparison 
of  one  part  with  another,  and  an  energetic  attempt  to  determine 
when,  by  whom,  and  for  what  purpose  every  part  of  the  Bible 
was  written.  Such  an  investigation  was  not  only  inevitable, 
but  desirable.  All  truth  is  a  good ;  and  the  more  important 
the  department  of  study,  the  more  valuable  are  the  results  of 
research  in  it.  And  though  at  present  disagreement  and  inde- 
cision may  seem  to  be  the  only  result  reached,  the  ultimate 
issue  cannot  but  be  the  furtherance  of  the  cause  of  truth. 


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The  differences  in  the  methods  used  and  in  the  conclusions 
arrived  at  depend  largely,  if  not  mainly,  on  the  differences  in 
the  prepossessions  with  which  the  various  critics  enter  upon 
their  work.  Prepossessions,  it  is  often  said,  are  obstacles  in  the 
search  after  truth,  and  ought  to  be  laid  aside.  In  fact,  however, 
prepossessions  are  unavoidable  and  indispensable  in  all  attempts 
to  enlarge  the  boundaries  of  knowledge.  Whatever  convictions 
and  conclusions  a  person  has  gained  on  any  point  constitute  a 
body  of  prepossessions  which  he  must  and  should  carry  with 
him  in  his  further  research.  He  would  be  a  fool  if  at  every 
step  in  his  progress  he  should  allow  himself  to  unsettle  those 
convictions  and  attempt  to  build  up  again  from  the  very  founda- 
tions. Indeed,  progress  in  knowledge  would  in  such  a  case  be 
impossible. 

Professor  Green,  while  he  believes  in  the  legitimacy  and 
value  of  the  higher  criticism,  believes,  also,  that  there  are  right 
and  wrong  prepossessions  which  may  be  carried  into  it.  While 
he  would  adopt  the  maxim,  "  Prove  all  things;  hold  fast  that 
which  is  good,"  he  would  adopt  as  a  fundamental  assumption 
and  criterion  the  general  truthfulness  of  the  Christian  Script- 
ures, as  having  been  established  by  nineteen  centuries  of  Chris- 
tian history  and  Christian  apologetics.  This  fundamental  as- 
sumption, however,  does  not  prevent  him  from  examining 
dispassionately  all  the  speculations  and  alleged  discoveries 
which  others  have  made  and  which  often  run  counter  to  the 
traditional  beliefs  of  Christendom.  Rather,  it  enables  him  to 
apply  to  them  a  safe  and  sound  test.  It  qualifies  him  to  act  as 
a  higher  critic  in  the  highest  sense  of  that  term.  Furnished  as 
few  others  have  been  with  a  store  of  such  knowledge  as  pertains 
to  his  department,  he  has  been  enabled  to  understand  the  bear- 
ings and  the  merits  of  all  the  manifold  theories  that  have  been 
propounded  in  regard  to  the  books  of  the  Old  Testament.  He 
is  familiar  with  the  languages,  the  history,  the  archaeology,  the 
hermeneutical  principles  which  are  concerned  in  the  critical  in- 
vestigations. And  with  all,  and  above  all,  he  has  a  faith  in 
revealed  truth  and  a  comprehensive  view  of  its  relation  to  the 
purposes  of  God  in  human  history,  such  as  serve  to  give 
balance  and  steadiness  to  his  critical  judgments.     Some  men 


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say  that  he  is  prejudiced.  Yes,  he  is  prejudiced  in  favor  of  the 
belief  that  God  has  revealed  His  will  and  purposes  to  men  ;  in 
favor  of  the  reality  of  the  redemptive  work  of  God  begun  in 
Israel  and  finished  in  Jesus  Christ  ;  in  favor  of  the  credibility  of 
the  sacred  books  which  have  been  handed  down  as  the  record 
of  that  work  and  as  the  oracles  of  God  to  guide  men  to  eternal 
life.  And  to  those  who  would  clamor  that  such  prejudice  is 
treason  against  the  cause  of  truth  he  would  doubtless  say,  in 
the  words  of  Patrick  Henry :  "  If  that  be  treason,  make  the 
most  of  it." 

It  is  with  this  preconception  that  Dr.  Green  approaches  the 
topics  of  Biblical  criticism.  His  work  has  been  constructive  as 
well  as  defensive.  But  the  Christian  public  knows  him  best 
on  the  apologetic  side.  More  than  thirty  years  ago,  when 
Bishop  Colenso  raked  together  all  the  difficulties  which  he 
could  find  in  the  Pentateuch,  Dr.  Green  came  to  the  defence  in 
his  work  entitled  "  The  Pentateuch  Vindicated  from  the  Asper- 
sions of  Bishop  Colenso."  The  task  was  not  a  very  difficult 
one  ;  his  antagonist,  coming  forth  with  all  the  self-confidence  of 
a  Goliath,  was  easily  felled  by  a  few  well-aimed  stones  from  the 
Professor's  sling.  In  that  work  Dr.  Green  exposed  in  a  caustic 
way  the  weakness  of  a  criticism  which  magnifies  every  trifling 
appearance  of  difficulty  or  discrepancy  into  evidence  of  igno- 
rance or  dishonesty  on  the  part  of  the  Biblical  writers— the  re- 
sult being  that  the  marks  of  ignorance,  if  not  of  dishonesty, 
were  found  to  be  on  the  side  of  the  critic  rather  than  of  the 
books  criticised.  Since  that  day  little  has  been  heard  of  the 
great  arithmetical  argument  against  the  credibility  of  the  Pen- 
tateuch. 

During  the  twenty  years  that  followed  Professor  Green's 
masterly  reply  to  Colenso,  his  contributions  to  the  public  con- 
sisted chiefly  of  articles  in  the  periodical  press,  the  most  of 
which  had  to  do  with  Old  Testament  subjects.  He  published 
also  his  valuable  work  on  "  The  Argument  of  the  Book  of 
Job,"  which,  however,  is  more  exegetical  than  critical,  though 
it  incidentally  bears  upon  some  critical  questions  relating  to  it. 
It  was  during  this  period  that  Old  Testament  criticism  was  tak- 
ing on  a  new  phase.     The  dissection  of  the  Pentateuch  and 


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the  attempts  to  determine  when  its  several  parts  were  written 
had  hitherto  left  the  main  features  of  Old  Testament  history 
unassailed.  Certain  parts  of  the  Old  Testament  had  been  chal- 
lenged as  unauthentic.  The  Mosaic  authorship  of  the  whole 
Pentateuch  had  been  denied.  But  it  was  not  generally  held 
that  he  wrote  none  of  it ;  and  the  substantial  correctness  of  the 
Pentateuchal  history  was  not  denied.  But  now  all  is  changed. 
Within  the  last  quarter  of  a  century  a  theory  which  had  been 
only  sporadically  propounded  before  has  succeeded  the  others, 
and  is  in  its  bearings  on  Christian  faith  radically  different.  The 
Graf-Wellhausen  doctrine  involves  a  direct  assault  on  the  gen- 
eral authenticity  of  the  Pentateuch  and  a  large  part  of  the  other 
Old  Testament  books.  It  requires  those  who  accept  it  to 
assume  the  Pentateuch,  with  few  exceptions,  to  be  a  compound 
of  myths,  legends,  and  deliberate  fiction.  It  asks  us  to  regard 
the  Deuteronomic  and  Levitical  legislation  as  having  been  con- 
cocted centuries  after  the  time  of  Moses,  and  to  suppose  that 
these  productions  were  fraudulently  ascribed  to  Moses  and  that 
the  people  were  somehow  deluded  into  accepting  them  as  really 
Mosaic.  It  declares  that  we  cannot  be  sure  that  Moses  wrote 
anything.  It  requires  us  to  hold  that  Jesus  and  the  New  Tes- 
tament writers  were  wholly  mistaken  as  to  the  main  facts  about 
the  history  of  the  Jewish  religion  and  institutions.  It  asserts 
that  all  Jews  and  all  Christians  up  to  recent  years  have  been 
radically  deceived  on  these  points;  and  it  now  asks  the  world 
to  believe  that  this  long-standing  deceit  has  been  unmasked  by 
the  mere  sagacity  of  modern  critics,  although  they  have  discov- 
ered no  facts  material  to  the  case  which  have  not  been  open  to 
the  world  through  all  these  centuries. 

One  may  well  wonder  that  such  a  theory,  so  revolutionary 
in  its  nature,  should  have  succeeded  in  gaining  so  much  cur- 
rency as  it  has  among  even  Christian  scholars.  The  explana- 
tion is  to  be  found  largely  in  the  very  audacity  of  the  hypothe- 
sis. Applying  the  popular  principle  of  evolution,  these  new 
critics  decided  that  Judaism  could  not  have  begun  with  a  pure 
monotheism,  such  as  is  ascribed  in  Genesis  to  Abraham,  but 
must  have  been  developed  out  of  a  primitive  fetishism  and 
polytheism.     Abraham  himself  was  therefore  remanded  to  the 


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region  of  fable  or  myth,  and  even  Moses  was  declared  to  be  a 
man  of  whom  we  know  nothing  surely.  Ethic  monotheism  was 
averred  to  have  originated  with  the  prophets  who  flourished  a 
century  and  more  after  the  time  of  Solomon.  Things  were 
turned  end  for  end.  The  historic  order,  we  were  told,  was 
really  not :  The  law  and  the  prophets,  but :  The  prophets  and 
the  law.  Such  a  "  result  "  of  criticism  seemed  like  something 
"  worth  the  while."     It  was  startling,  and  therefore  attractive. 

But  such  an  hypothesis  could  not  expect  to  be  left  unchal- 
lenged. Against  it  were  arrayed  two  classes  of  critics,  who,  on 
the  question  of  the  critical  partition  of  the  Pentateuch,  had 
been  on  opposite  sides.  On  the  one  hand,  scholars  like  Pro- 
fessors Strack,  of  Germany,  and  James  Robertson,  of  Scotland, 
leave  the  question  of  composite  authorship  untouched,  or  even 
accept  the  general  conclusions  of  the  critical  analysis,  while  yet 
they  sturdily  combat  these  radical  conjectures  and  inferences 
as  to  the  course  of  Old  Testament  history  and  the  general 
credibility  of  the  Old  Testament  records.  Representing  the 
other  and  more  conservative  class  of  critics,  so  far  as  the  critical 
partition  is  concerned,  Dr.  Green  yet  joins  hands  with  such  men 
as  these  on  what  must  be  regarded  as  the  most  vital  point,  viz., 
opposition  to  the  theory  which  pronounces  the  Old  Testament 
as  a  whole  to  be  largely,  or  even  mainly,  unhistorical. 

The  twenty  years  following  Professor  Green's  reply  to  Co- 
lenso  had  not  been  idle  years.  And  he  was  now  fully  pre- 
pared to  enter  into  the  new  conflict  which  had  been  begun.  The 
radical  criticism,  emanating  from  the  new  German  and  Dutch 
schools,  had  been  made  familiar  to  English  readers  by  Robert- 
son Smith's  works,  "  The  Old  Testament  in  the  Jewish 
Church  "  and  "  The  Prophets  of  Israel,"  and  by  the  trans- 
lation of  Kuenen's  work  on  "  Prophets  and  Prophecy  in 
Israel."  These  books  were  taken  in  hand  by  Professor  Green 
in  his  "  Moses  and  the  Prophets,"  and  subjected  to  a  brilliant 
critique.  The  scholars  whom  he  here  confronted  ranked  as 
coryphaei  among  the  extreme  critics  of  the  modern  school.  It 
is  safe  to  say  that  on  every  point  their  American  opponent 
showed  himself  fully  their  equal  in  minute  acquaintance  with 
the  questions  at  issue,  and  more  than  their  equal  in  his  ability  to 


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take  a  comprehensive  view  of  the  meaning  and  relations  of  the 
Old  Testament  books  and  institutions.  The  result  is  that  he 
exposes  clearly  and  mercilessly  their  hasty  inferences,  un- 
founded assumptions  and  manifest  blunders,  and  demonstrates 
how  much  less  serious  the  difficulties  are  on  the  traditional 
theory  than  on  the  new  one. 

Particularly  effective  is  his  exposition  of  the  fundamental 
weakness  of  the  critical  basis  on  which  the  radical  hypothesis 
was  founded.  In  order  to  establish  the  new  view  of  the  course 
of  Old  Testament  history,  it  was  necessary  to  depend  on  some- 
thing in  it  as  trustworthy.  If  every  part  of  the  Old  Testament 
were  fabulous  and  fictitious,  it  would  be  manifestly  impossible  to 
enucleate  from  it  any  trustworthy  historical  narrative.  Accord- 
ingly, the  prophetical  and  certain  of  the  historical  books  were 
fixed  upon  as  generally  truthful ;  and  by  means  of  them  it  was 
sought  to  show  that  the  Pentateuch,  or  rather  the  Hexateuch, 
was  almost  entirely  untrustworthy.  But  soon  it  appeared  that 
these  very  books,  which  were  selected  as  the  basis  of  the  at- 
tempted reconstruction,  themselves  very  largely  presuppose  or 
affirm  the  traditional  conception  of  the  order  of  Old  Testament 
history.  And  therefore  the  critics  in  question  found  it  necessary 
to  run  the  critical  pruning-knife  through  their  own  authorities, 
and  eliminate  or  amend  everything  which  ran  counter  to  their 
own  theory.  They  had  to  assume  that  the  final  redactors  of 
those  books  had  entertained  a  false  conception  of  the  facts  of 
Jewish  history,  and  that,  therefore,  even  the  most  trustworthy 
of  the  Old  Testament  books  had  been  largely  vitiated  by  the 
interpolations  and  working-over  which  they  had  received  from 
these  partisan  editors.  Seeing,  then,  that  the  only  sources  on 
which  they  could  rely  were  thus  admitted  to  be  unreliable,  it 
seems  to  savor  more  of  critical  audacity  than  of  critical  judg- 
ment, when,  nevertheless,  they  push  on  with  their  conjectures, 
and  profess  to  be  able  at  every  turn,  by  bare  critical  insight,  to 
know  what  to  accept  and  what  to  reject.  As  Professor  Green 
admirably  observed  respecting  them,  "  It  would  be  better  to 
remand  the  entire  history  of  Israel  to  the  region  of  fable,  and  to 
confess  that  we  have  no  positive  knowledge  about  it,  than  to 
attempt  this  revolutionary  process  of  reconstruction,  which  is 


26  ADDRESSES 

professedly  based   upon  authorities  which  are  perpetually  dis- 
credited." 

A  few  years  later  (1885)  Dr.  Green  published  his  Newton 
Lectures  on  "The  Hebrew  Feasts,"  in  which  he  deals  with  a 
particular  topic  much  debated  in  connection  with  the  problem 
of  Mosaic  legislation.  This  treatise  is  a  more  elaborate  and  ex- 
haustive one  than  that  above  mentioned.  The  premises  and 
arguments  of  the  radical  critics  are  carefully  considered  and 
conclusively  answered ;  and  it  is  satisfactorily  shown  that  the 
alleged  difficulties  found  in  the  different  precepts  relating  to  the 
Jewish  festivals  do  not  warrant  the  hypothesis  of  a  post-Mosaic 
origin  of  any  of  them.  This  work  has  had  the  honor  of  being 
translated  into  German,  and  Professor  Green's  writings  in  gen- 
eral are  highly  esteemed  in  Germany  by  the  more  conservative 
Old  Testament  critics. 

Besides  rendering  these  services  in  defence  of  the  general 
authenticity  of  the  Old  Testament,  Dr.  Green  has  devoted  much 
time  to  the  narrower  question  of  the  genuineness  and  integrity 
of  the  Pentateuch.  Of  those  who  still  maintain  the  essentially 
Mosaic  origin  of  the  Pentateuch  it  may  without  hesitation  be 
said  that  he  is  the  foremost  representative.  No  one  else  has 
followed  the  critical  analysis  through  all  its  windings  so  patiently 
and  thoroughly;  no  one  else  is  more  familiar  with  all  the  modern 
works  bearing  on  the  subject.  He  has  waged  no  war  against 
the  higher  criticism  as  such.  On  the  contrary,  he  has  freely  ad- 
mitted the  legitimacy  of  critical  investigations  of  the  literary 
structure,  authorship,  and  history  of  the  Biblical  books.  But  he 
also  claims  that  critical  research  which  tends  to  the  establish- 
ment of  the  unity  and  Mosaic  authorship  of  the  Pentateuch  is 
as  truly  work  in  the  department  of  higher  criticism  as  that  which 
leads  one  to  a  different  conclusion.  He  can  well  afford  to  smile 
at  the  egotistic  pertness  of  a  man  like  Professor  Cheyne,  who  can 
find  no  genuine  and  honest  criticism  except  in  one  who  is  eager 
to  go  to  the  latest  and  greatest  extreme  in  the  work  of  upsetting 
traditional  conceptions. 

In  this  field  of  purely  literary  criticism  it  must  be  confessed 
that  the  opposite  opinions  can,  neither  of  them,  be  regarded  as 
established  by  demonstrative  arguments.      There  are  features 


ADDRESSES  27 

of  the  Pentateuch  which  favor  the  hypothesis  of  a  composite 
origin;  and  these  indications  must  be  allowed  to  have  their  due 
weight,  and  cannot  be  refuted  by  falling  back  on  the  traditional 
notion  that  Moses  was  the  author  of  the  whole  Pentateuch. 
But  Dr.  Green  by  no  means  contents  himself  with  this  argu- 
ment. He  meets  the  advocates  of  the  partition  theory  on  their 
own  ground  and  with  their  own  weapons,  and  undertakes  to 
prove  that  the  arguments  for  it  are  inconclusive.  And  every 
one  must  confess  that  he  has  succeeded  in  showing  that,  as  a 
strictly  scientific  and  critical  question,  the  unity  of  the  Penta- 
teuch can  be  maintained  by  considerations  which  command 
respect  even  where  they  do  not  force  conviction. 

Perhaps  the  most  laborious  work  of  Professor  Green  has 
been  his  examination  in  the  "Hebraica"  (1888  ff.)  of  the  current 
critical  partition  of  the  Pentateuch.  It  required  a  vast  amount 
of  patience  and  toil  on  the  part  of  the  author;  it  requires  very 
much,  if  not  so  much,  patience  and  toil  on  the  part  of  a  reader 
to  follow  the  discussion  through,  and  make  himself  able  to  ap- 
preciate the  full  force  of  it.  In  these  articles  Dr.  Green  takes 
up  in  the  minutest  detail  the  hypothesis  adopted  by  the  an- 
alysts of  the  Pentateuch,  the  philological  and  other  arguments 
adduced  by  them,  and  exposes  one  by  one  their  inadequacy. 
Whether  or  not  we  are  convinced  by  him  of  the  absolute  base- 
lessness of  the  critical  partition,  no  candid  man  can  refuse  to  con- 
cede that  he  has  exposed  a  vast  number  of  instances  of  fallacious 
reasoning,  mistaken  assumptions,  and  hasty  inferences.  Particu- 
larly he  shows  how,  to  a  very  large  extent,  the  hypothesis  of 
diverse  authorship  determines  the  critical  partition,  or,  as  he 
felicitously  puts  it,  "The  text  is  partitioned  agreeably  to  a 
certain  hypothesis,  every  passage  having  certain  characteristics 
is  assigned  to  one  writer,  and  such  as  have  certain  other  charac- 
teristics to  other  writers.  And  when  the  partition  is  complete, 
it  corresponds  to  the  hypothesis  simply  because  it  was  made  by 
the  hypothesis."  Illustrations  of  this  proposition  are  given  in 
abundance ;  and  particularly  is  it  shown  how  the  hypothetical 
redactor  is  resorted  to  "  for  any  emergency  in  the  way  of  trans- 
position, modification,  excision,  insertion,  and  readjustment,"  so 
that  no  difficulty  in  the  theory  is  too  great  to  be  overcome  by 


28  ADDRESSES 

his  ever-ready  help.  Besides  all  this,  Dr.  Green  shows  how  the 
alleged  criteria  are  unwarrantably  multiplied  by  counting  in 
among  them  words  that  occur  only  once,  or  only  in  a  certain 
subject,  when  the  use  of  the  words  in  question  really  furnishes 
no  evidence  whatever  of  diversity  of  authorship.  The  formid- 
able array  of  linguistic  peculiarities  of  P  and  J  is  thus  often 
reduced  to  a  small  residuum,  showing  that,  even  though  there 
may  have  been  no  conscious  unfairness  on  the  part  of  the  critics, 
there  has  at  least  been  an  excessive  and  inconsiderate  zeal  to 
make  out  a  case.  And  even  though  this  residuum,  together  with 
other  considerations,  may  suffice  to  convince  many  candid  men 
of  the  fact  of  a  diversity  of  authorship,  yet  Dr.  Green's  critique 
of  the  critical  process  has  at  least  made  it  certain  that  no  one  can 
be  certain  about  the  correctness  of  a  partition  of  an  ancient  work 
among  different  authors,  when  the  only  data  are  to  be  found  in 
the  work  itself.  There  may  be  some  strong  indications  of  a 
plurality  of  authors,  but  when  one  goes  so  far  as  to  parcel  out 
the  work  minutely  among  the  several  hypothetical  writers,  un- 
dertaking to  divide  up  not  only  chapters  and  sections,  but 
verses  and  parts  of  verses,  to  determine  what  was  done  by  the 
several  original  authors  and  later  by  revisers  and  redactors,  and 
to  fix  the  date  of  these  several  productions — all  this  can  be 
regarded  as,  at  the  best,  only  conjecture,  which,  however 
plausible  it  may  be  made  to  seem,  can  from  the  nature  of  the 
case  never  be  proved  correct,  unless  we  can  discover  (what  is  as 
good  as  hopeless)  authentic  historic  information  as  to  the 
authorship  of  the  books  in  question.  It  is  one  thing  to  doubt 
whether  Moses  wrote  all,  or  nearly  all,  of  the  Pentateuch,  and 
quite  another  thing  to  find  out  how  many  may  and  who  have 
had  part  in  the  work.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  human  sagacity  is 
not  equal  to  the  task;  and  no  amount  of  agreement  among 
Biblical  critics  can  suffice  to  warrant  any  one  in  pronouncing  the 
partition  one  of  the  "results"  of  scientific  research.  One  may, 
if  he  please,  hesitate  to  follow  Dr.  Green  in  his  positive  con- 
clusion that  Moses  did  write  nearly  the  whole  work;  but  no 
one  ought  to  hesitate  to  admit  that  his  review  of  the  critical 
experiments  of  the  last  century  has  demonstrated  the  essential 
insecurity  of  all  merely  conjectural  criticism.     And  when  the 


ADDRESSES  29 

furor  for  novelty  in  the  matter  of  Biblical  theories  has  passed 
away,  and  men  are  less  afraid  of  believing  what  their  fathers 
believed,  Dr.  Green's  sturdy  and  scholarly  defences  of  the  tradi- 
tional faith  of  Christendom  will  unquestionably  be  a  powerful 
factor  in  destroying  the  confidence  of  the  Christian  Church  in 
the  vagaries  of  a  Biblical  "science  falsely  so  called,"  and  will 
help  to  bring  men  back  from  their  reckless  search  for  some  new 
thing  in  religious  belief. 

Professor  Green's  contributions  to  the  periodical  press  on 
Biblical  subjects  have  been  too  numerous  to  mention  in  detail. 
But  it  should  be  noted  that  he  has  not  only  reviewed  many 
current  works  on  Pentateuchal  questions,  but  has  discussed  such 
other  mooted  topics  as  the  authorship  of  Isaiah  and  of  Daniel, 
the  titles  of  the  Psalms,  and  various  questions  relating  to  Old 
Testament  prophecy.  In  all  these  is  seen  the  hand  of  a 
master,  in  whom  conscientious  scholarship  and  humble  piety 
are  joined  together. 

The  last  year  has  witnessed  the  publication  of  two  books  by 
Dr.  Green,  one  of  which  ("Higher  Criticism  of  the  Penta- 
teuch") gives  a  succinct  history  of  the  critical  theories  and 
presents  the  argument  on  the  other  side  with  the  clearness  and 
force  which  characterize  all  his  writings.  The  other  book 
("  The  Unity  of  the  Book  of  Genesis")  gives  us  the  substance 
of  the  "  Hebraica  "  articles  collected  together,  and  enables  the 
public  more  easily  to  follow  the  controversy  concerning  the 
plurality  of  authorship  as  related  to  that  book  from  which  the 
theory  of  plurality  can  be  most  plausibly  argued.  These  two 
works  together  furnish  a  welcome  summary  of  the  critical  labors 
of  Dr.  Green.  They  are  the  ripe  fruit  of  long  study  and  pro- 
found scholarship.  They  represent  a  revulsion  from  the 
extreme  positions  of  negative  criticism — a  revulsion  as  inevi- 
table and  necessary  as  that  which  followed  the  assault  made  by 
Baur  and  his  school  on  the  traditional  conception  of  the  New 
Testament.  There  is  a  close  parallel  between  the  two  move- 
ments. In  both  instances  a  theory  of  development  is  the  postu- 
late from  which  the  particular  deductions  are  made.  In  both 
there  is  a  latent  or  avowed  doubt  of  the  supernatural.  In  both, 
an  exaggeration  of  the  alleged  antithesis  of  religious  tendencies. 


30  ADDRESSES 

In  both,  the  arbitraiy  ascription  of  genuineness  or  authenticity 
to  some  books  and  using  them  as  a  means  of  discrediting 
others.  In  both,  the  distorting  of  facts  for  the  sake  of  the 
theory  and  the  creation  of  greater  difficulties  than  those  that 
are  removed.  But  in  both  cases  we  must  recognize  the  benefit 
which  has  come,  and  is  still  likely  to  come,  from  these  attempts 
to  probe  to  the  bottom  the  time  and  manner  in  which  the 
books  of  the  Bible  came  to  be.  Though  extravagance  and  even 
irreverence  may  characterize  some  of  the  speculations,  yet  the 
spirit  of  inquiry  which  has  been  awakened  cannot  fail  in  the 
end  to  lead  to  a  better  understanding  of  the  oracles  of  God. 
We  stand  now  in  a  transition  period  of  the  conflict.  And 
though  for  the  moment  a  one-sided  and  radical  hypothesis 
seems  to  be  the  favorite  among  critical  scholars,  the  lesson  of 
history  confirms  the  intuition  of  faith,  that  the  ultimate  result 
will  be  the  re-establishment  of  the  credibility  and  authority  of 
the  Word  of  God  in  the  minds  and  hearts  of  men.  We  may 
not  be  able  to  forecast  what  the  course  of  the  conflict  is  to  be, 
or  what  new  forms  of  assault  on  the  foundations  of  our  faith 
may  yet  be  attempted.  But  we  may  be  certain  of  the  ulti- 
mate result.  We  will  not  be  greatly  moved  by  the  confident 
assurance  with  which  it  is  always  said  of  the  latest  fad  of  rad- 
icalism, that  it  has  "come  to  stay."  We  will  rather  fall  back 
on  the  assurance  of  Him  who  said :  "  Heaven  and  earth  shall 
pass  away,  but  my  word  shall  not  pass  away."  And  we  cannot 
doubt  that  high  among  the  higher  critics,  who  by  their  learning 
and  faith  serve  to  restore  and  strengthen  the  faith  of  others, 
will  always  stand  the  name  of  William  Henry  Green. 


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DR.  GREEN'S   CONTRIBUTION   TO  SEMITIC 
SCHOLARSHIP. 

BY  THE  REV.  PROFESSOR   J.  F.  MCCURDY,  PH.D.,  LL.D. 

It  is  a  great  thing  to  have  been  a  teacher  for  fifty  years.  It 
is  a  greater  thing  to  have  been  so  long  a  teacher  in  Princeton 
Seminary.  It  is  a  great  thing  to  have  been  a  teacher  for  fifty 
years.  But  it  is  a  greater  thing  to  have  been  for  so  long  a  time 
a  teacher  of  Hebrew.  For  Hebrew  lies  at  the  foundation  of 
things,  particularly  of  the  great  things  with  which  Princeton  is 
concerned.  Princeton  has  always  held  that,  in  matters  Biblical 
and  theological,  the  man  who  ignores  or  evades  his  Hebrew 
original,  though  he  may  do  brilliant  work,  cannot  do  sound 
work ;  he  cannot  do  solid  and  lasting  work.  Exegesis  is  your 
central  study.  It  is,  if  you  will,  the  trunk  of  your  tree  of 
knowledge.  Its  branches  are  the  doctrines  of  theology  and 
religion.  But  its  roots  run  deep  into  the  soil  of  language— the 
language  of  the  Word  of  God,  the  language  in  which  the  Old 
Testament  was  written,  and  with  which  the  New  Testament  is 
interpenetrated  and  colored.  It  is  the  glory  of  Princeton  that 
she  has  always  recognized  this  fundamental  axiom,  that  she  has 
never  appealed  to  the  authority  either  of  a  Latin  vulgate  or  of 
an  English  vulgate. 

Instruction  in  Hebrew  was  part  of  the  duties  of  Dr.  Archi- 
bald Alexander,  the  first  professor  in  this  Seminary.  Eight 
years  after  the  foundation  of  the  institution  a  special  instructor 
was  appointed.  The  name  of  that  instructor  was  Charles 
Hodge,  who,  two  years  later,  in  1822,  was  made  full  Professor 
of  Oriental  and  Biblical  Literature.  Four  years  thereafter 
Charles  Hodge  was  sent  to  Europe  to  study  Hebrew,  Syriac, 
and  Arabic  under  the  best  masters  of  the  time,  among  them 
being  De  Sacy  and  Gesenius.  Again,  seven  years  later,  in 
1833,  Joseph  Addison  Alexander  was  appointed  instructor  in 
Biblical  and  Oriental  Literature.  As  instructor  and  profess- 
or in  this  department  he  continued  to  minister  till  1846,  when 
William  Henry  Green  was  appointed   Instructor  in  Hebrew. 


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The  transfer  of  functions  was  completed  when,  in  185 1,  Dr. 
Alexander  handed  over  the  chair  of  Biblical  and  Oriental  Lit- 
erature to  his  former  assistant. 

These  appointments  mark  three  distinct  eras  in  the  history 
of  Hebrew  and  Semitic  study  in  Princeton.  The  first  was  the 
epoch  introduced  by  Charles  Hodge  in  1820.  Dr.  Archibald 
Alexander  knew  only  unpointed  Hebrew.  In  fact,  he  never 
fully  believed  in  the  other  more  elaborate  system.  Dr.  Hodge's 
scholarship  was  of  a  comprehensive  and,  so  to  speak,  of  a 
dynamic  kind.  He  cared  for  and  gave  out  results  rather  than 
processes.  Minute  attention  to  linguistic  forms  was  never  one 
of  his  characteristics.  Yet  his  teaching  was  stimulating  and 
effective.  The  interest  aroused  in  the  original  languages  of 
Scripture  during  his  term  as  instructor  must  have  been  great, 
since  we  find  that,  in  1822,  the  junior  class  of  that  year,  con- 
sisting of  twenty-eight  members,  agreed  to  raise  $7,000  in  five 
years  for  a  professorship  in  Oriental  and  Biblical  Literature,  and 
the  senior  class  $4,000  for  a  like  purpose.  The  great  merit  of 
Dr.  Hodge's  work  was  that  through  him  the  study  of  Hebrew 
and  Greek  was  made  an  urgent  order  of  the  day  for  Princeton 
Seminary. 

A  great  step  forward  was  made  with  the  accession  of  Joseph 
Addison  Alexander.   He  was  a  Hebraist  and  linguist  conamore, 
a  philologist  in  the  broadest  and  deepest  sense.     His  acquisi- 
tive power  was  so  great  that  thoughts  and  their   expression 
seemed   to  come  to  him  as  undivided  wholes  by  a  species   of 
intuition.     At  least,  he  appeared  to  have  no  consciousness  of  a 
process  in    his  appropriation   of   a  language  or  its    literature. 
Hence,  in  his  teaching  it  was  not   easy  for  him  to  set  forth  a 
methodical  and  normal  process  of  acquisition.     He  came  upon 
his  students  with  an  almost  overpowering  rush  of  information. 
So  copious,  energetic,  and  rapid  was  it  that  it  was  apt  to  carry 
the  ordinary  man  off  his  feet,  and  land  him  high  and  dry  out- 
side the  course,  only  to  be  carried   forward  by  side  currents  or 
by  waves  of  extra  force  and  reach.     Fortunate  were  those  who 
could  swim  with   such   a  current.      It  was  a  rare  chance  to  be 
carried  swiftly  onward  upon  an  ever-widening  river  of  truth,  to 
find  the  depth  and  breadth  of  the  stream  no  element  of  danger, 


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but  a  means  of  getting  larger  scope  and   freer  play  for  strong 
athletic  limbs. 

Pre-eminent  among  these  sturdy  and  eager  swimmers,  or,  to 
drop  the  metaphor,  among  the  ardent  and  receptive  pupils  of 
the  great  orientalist  and  scholar,  was  the  man  (I  should  rather 
say  the  boy)  who  now  came  to  inaugurate  the  third  era  in 
Semitic  studies  in  this  Seminary. 

What  Green  stood  for  in  the  teaching  of  oriental  languages 
in  Princeton  was  method  and  system.  Dr.  Alexander  made  his 
way  through  the  forest  for  himself,  and  that  always  a  sure  and 
straight  way,  never  looking  backward  except  to  note  the  rate 
of  advance.  His  young  assistant  learned  the  way  and  marked 
every  step,  for  his  own  assurance  and  for  the  helping  of  those 
who  might  follow.  He  thus  had  a  prime  quality  of  the  great 
teacher — an  intellectual  self-consciousness,  which  holds  knowl- 
edge in  systematic  form,  and  can  always  certify  to  itself  its  own 
attainment.  Thus,  with  rare  sureness  and  clear-sightedness,  he 
became  the  Hebrew  teacher  of  his  generation  in  Princeton — not 
in  Princeton  merely,  but  in  America  ;  in  fact,  the  most  influen- 
tial Hebrew  teacher  of  his  time  among  English-speaking  men. 

As  all  the  world  knows,  this  influence  was  exerted  mainly 
through  his  grammatical  works.  What  are  his  characteristics  as 
a  grammarian  ?  Mainly  these  two  :  a  deep  sense  of  the  needs 
of  learners  and  an  altogether  remarkable  faculty  of  clear  and 
adequate  statement.  As  far  as  method  and  principles  are  con- 
cerned, we  might  say  broadly  that  in  these  works  we  have  com- 
mon sense  applied  to  language  teaching.  That  is,  he  solved  the 
problem  of  enabling  the  learner  to  use  most  speedily  and  satis- 
factorily the  original  text.  The  two  grammatical  systems  in 
vogue  at  the  time  when  Dr.  Green's  larger  grammar  appeared 
came  short  of  adequate  fitness — the  one  by  following  too  closely 
the  grammars  of  the  classical  languages,  the  other  by  an  over- 
refinement  of  exposition.  It  is  enough  to  say  that  Green's 
grammatical  system,  by  its  lucidity  of  arrangement,  its  aptness 
and  preciseness  of  definition,  its  sense  of  proportion  in  the  treat- 
ment of  linguistic  phenomena,  enables  the  pupil  to  apply  at  once 
his  knowledge  of  forms  and  inflections  to  the  explanation  of  his 
text.  He  thus  finds  that  what  are  usually  thought  to  be  the 
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34  ADDRESSES 

dry  roots  and  stems  of  a  dead  language  are  living  and  fruitful  in 
the  imperishable  forms  of  the  very  Word  of  Life  itself.  This, 
then,  is  Dr.  Green's  great  service  to  his  generation  as  a  master  of 
languages.  But  what  he  accomplished  was  not  merely  the  sim- 
plifying and  popularizing  of  Hebrew  study.  His  treatment  of 
the  phenomena  of  the  language  was,  at  the  same  time,  broad, 
scientific,  philosophic. 

Nor  did  he  fail  to  cultivate  the  other  languages  of  the  great 
Semitic  family  of  speech.  We  who,  as  undergraduates,  called 
upon  him  for  instruction,  knew  how  ready  and  apt  he  was, 
though  more  urgently  pressed  with  work  than  we  at  that  time 
could  understand,  to  introduce  us  to  the  mysteries  of  the  Tar- 
gums,  of  Syriac  and  of  Arabic.  And  when  a  few  of  us,  more 
adventurous  still,  with  some  trepidation  hazarded  the  request 
that  he  give  us  an  introduction  to  Sanskrit,  this,  too,  was  not 
denied  us.  Indeed,  all  that  was  needed  to  give  him  a  very  high 
place  in  the  realm  of  general  and  comparative  philology  was  a 
little  more  of  the  time  that  was  all  along  being  devoted  to  other 
things.  Professor  Whitney  had  good  reason  for  saying  that  he 
very  much  regretted  that  Dr.  Green  had  been  obliged  to  discon- 
tinue the  study  of  Sanskrit. 

But  what  would  we  have,  Mr.  President  ?  You  know  much 
better  than  those  of  a  later  date  what  the  demands  were  upon 
the  time  of  a  professor  of  Oriental  and  Biblical  Literature  in 
those  early  days.  It  is  almost  staggering  to  think  of  what 
was  accomplished  by  the  men  of  those  strenuous  times.  To  get 
some  notion  of  it  we  may  take  a  volume  of  the  Princeton  Re- 
view of  those  decades,  enumerate  the  articles  written  by  Dr. 
Green,  and  note  the  variety  of  their  subjects.  Then  we  may 
add  to  them  the  stated  work  of  the  department,  the  daily  lect- 
ures delivered  till  1859  upon  as  many  subjects  as  now  require 
the  attention  of  four  or  five  instructors  in  the  Seminary.  We 
may  throw  in  besides  a  reasonable  or  perhaps  an  unreasonable 
amount  of  preaching.  At  last,  when  in  1859  Dr.  Addison  Alex- 
ander was  transferred  from  the  chair  of  Church  History  to  the 
New  Testament  department,  Dr.  Green  must  have  felt  himself 
a  free  man.  He  had  then  only  to  do  the  work  at  present  per- 
formed by  three  men.    The  next  year,  i860,  just  after  the  death 


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of  Dr.  Addison  Alexander,  Dr.  Hodge  wrote  to  a  friend  with 
reference  to  the  question  of  filling  the  New  Testament  chair  : 
"  Dr.  Green  cannot  touch  it.  He  is  fully  occupied  with  the 
Old  Testament,  its  language,  its  literature,  history,  criticism, 
introduction,  and  interpretation."  One  would  suppose  so.  Now, 
it  was  just  then  that  he  began  to  write  his  monumental  Hebrew 
grammar,  and  on  August  22,  1861,  he  wrote  the  preface  to  the 
finished  work. 

But  I  have  now  little  time  left  to  speak  of  the  work  of  our 
venerated  friend  as  a  living  teacher.  After  all,  we  can  best  tell 
the  secret  of  a  man's  influence  from  the  methods  and  character 
of  his  routine  work.  We  have  seen  something  of  Dr.  Green's 
manifold  activity.  Let  us  take  a  specimen  year  or  two  out  of 
the  time  when  he  was  still  without  any  assistant,  and  the  task 
of  professing  and  teaching  the  Semitic  languages  fell  upon  him 
alone.  One  can  speak  best  of  what  one  knows  at  first  hand  ; 
and  I  shall  venture  to  give  some  reminiscences  of  my  own  ex- 
perience as  a  pupil  of  Dr.  Green.  The  class  to  which  I  belong, 
that  of  '71,  exactly  bisects  the  fifty  years  which  we  to-day  com- 
memorate. When  we  came  under  Dr.  Green  for  the  Hebrew 
of  our  junior  year  we  felt  that  we  were  under  a  master.  For 
myself,  I  knew  at  the  time  that  I  was  passing  through  an  intel- 
lectual crisis.  First,  there  came  the  inevitable  weeks  of  me- 
chanical acquisition.  They,  however,  were  not  many.  I  can 
remember  two  epochs  of  the  first  year's  course  as  distinctly  as  if 
we  were  still  in  the  old  Miller  room  sitting  behind  the  curiously 
carved  old  desks.  The  first  real  revelation  came  when  we  were 
directed  to  make  a  systematic  collection  of  the  derivatives  from 
each  of  the  roots  which  occurred  in  our  reading  lessons.  The 
unifying  principle  of  our  whole  study  was  then  revealed  at  a 
single  stroke.  We  could  now  retain  and  utilize  what  we  had 
learned,  and  build  up  into  a  system  all  that  we  acquired,  as  we 
acquired  it.  The  next  stage  came  when  we  passed  in  the 
Chrestomathy  from  the  narrative  to  the  prophetical  selections. 
Here,  indeed,  a  new  world  was  revealed,  or  rather  the  old  world 
in  a  new  light,  by  the  application  of  linguistic  facts  to  exegesis. 
The  Fortieth  of  Isaiah:  "  Comfort  ye,  comfort  ye  my  people, 
saith  your  God,"    was    now  not    simply  read  ;  it  was   heard. 


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The  Prophet's  own  voice  seemed  to  be  borne  across  the  centu- 
ries, laden  with  his  message,  so  plaintive,  so  far-reaching,  so 
divinely  full  and  rich  with  love  and  promise.  Here  was  lin- 
guistic study  ministering  not  merely  to  taste  and  judgment,  but 
to  the  imagination  and  the  heart.  Here  was  the  very  glorifica- 
tion of  philology.  Here  was  the  vindication  of  the  Princetonian 
tradition  of  thoroughness  and  fidelity  to  the  primary  authentic 
forms  of  the  spoken  and  written  Word.  After  that  everything 
fell  naturally  into  its  place.  The  work  of  the  later  years,  the 
use  of  the  Septuagint  and  other  versions,  the  special  exegesis, 
came  as  a  matter  of  course.  The  strong  characteristic  feature 
of  Dr.  Green's  linguistic  training  was  this,  that  with  intensest 
energy  and  unsurpassed  skill  he  impressed  upon  students  in  the 
formative  period  of  their  course  the  true  idea  of  the  highest 
and  worthiest  use  of  Hebrew  study. 

And  yet  Dr.  Green's  achievements  in  oriental  philology 
are  not  his  greatest  work,  simply  because  he  regards  all  such 
study  as  a  preparatory  discipline,  as  an  aid  to  the  understanding 
of  the  Scriptures,  which  it  is  the  business  of  his  life  to  expound. 
And  so  as  his  work  has  become  more  specialized  he  has  become 
a  teacher  of  Hebrew  only  in  the  sense  that  he  employs  it  in 
his  exegetical  lectures.  And  this  is  as  it  should  be.  Thus  is 
the  main  purpose  of  his  long  academic  career  best  fulfilled.  If 
Philology  knows  herself  and  her  mission  aright,  it  will  be  her 
proudest  boast  that  she  is  the  handmaid  of  Truth,  the  truth 
of  mind  and  spirit,  the  truth  about  God  and  man.  With  Pro- 
fessor Green,  at  least,  "philology"  meant  always  not  the  love 
of  words,  but  the  love  of  the  Word — rather,  I  may  say  more  lit- 
erally still,  the  love  of  the  Logos. 

This  is  the  explanation  of  his  work,  of  his  method,  of  his 
style,  of  his  life.  As  a  writer  and  teacher  of  manifold  achieve- 
ments and  varied  activity,  one  formula  expresses  and  distin- 
guishes him — an  expounder  of  the  Word.  And  the  man  himself, 
in  thetranslucence  and  purity,  in  the  unity  and  power  of  his  life, 
may  be  summarized  in  one  analogous  formula — an  exponent  of 
the  Word.  This  is  the  purpose  and  the  passion  of  a  rarely  sin- 
gle-hearted and  devoted  life.  Knowledge  and  reflection,  energy 
and  talents,  have  here  perpetually  fed  the  altar-flame.     The  fire 


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has  burned  strong  and  steady  within,  and  without  we  see  the 
pure,  white  light,  the  candor  of  the  love  of  truth  and  the  truth 
of  love.  And  so  we,  his  old  pupils,  looking  backward  and  for- 
ward, count  him  happy  in  his  career  and  work,  in  the  sum  of 
his  years,  in  the  measure  of  his  services,  in  the  motive  and  out- 
come of  his  life.  There  is  no  drawback  or  abatement  to  a  life 
of  consecrated  love.  For  "  love  never  faileth  ;  but  whether  there 
be  prophecies,  they  shall  fail ;  whether  there  be  languages,  they 
shall  cease  ;  whether  there  be  knowledge,  it  shall  vanish  away." 


DR.  GREEN'S   SERVICES   TO   THE  CHURCH   AT 

LARGE. 

by  president  francis  l.  patton,  d.d.,  ll.d. 

Mr.  President  : 

I  have  not  the  same  right  to  be  heard  on  this  occasion  as 
those  who  have  preceded  me,  for  I  can  hardly  claim  to  be  a 
Hebrew  scholar.  And  yet  I  am  glad  of  the  opportunity  that  is 
afforded  me  of  paying  my  tribute  of  affectionate  regard  to  Dr. 
Green,  whom  I  reverence  as  I  reverence  no  living  man.  I  am 
asked  to  speak  of  Dr.  Green's  services  to  the  Church  at  large, 
and  of  course  I  realize  very  well  that  his  influence  goes  far  be- 
yond the  pale  of  the  Church  to  which  he  belongs.  But  while 
his  fame  is  world-wide,  our  particular  interest  in  him  to-day 
takes  on  a  local  coloring.  I  cannot  forget  that  Dr.  Green  is  my 
fellow-townsman,  my  colleague  in  the  Seminary,  my  colleague 
in  the  trusteeship  of  the  College,  the  head  of  my  alma  mater, 
my  revered  teacher,  my  friend.  My  enthusiasm  and  the  enthu- 
siasm of  all  Princeton  men  very  naturally,  therefore,  focalizes 
itself  about  the  scene  of  Dr.  Green's  lifelong  labors.  We  are 
celebrating  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  Dr.  Green's  official  connec- 
tion with  the  Theological  Seminary  of  Princeton.  Princeton 
Seminary  is  known  everywhere  as  one  of  the  centres  of  theo- 
logical opinion.  It  stands,  it  is  true,  for  a  distinct  type  of 
theology,  but  it  stands  for  a  great  deal  more  than  the  theology 
which  is  its  own.      Oxford  is  a  centre  of   theology  also,  and 


38  ADDRESSES 

while  we  do  not  accept  the  distinct  features  of  the  high 
Anglican  theology,  we  recognize  the  great  service  which  the  An- 
glican theologians  have  rendered  in  the  defence  of  the  Nicene 
faith.  Princeton  Seminary  has  done  work  outside  of  the  five 
points  of  Calvinism.  Her  voice  has  been  heard  in  many  a  con- 
troversy, affecting  alike  all  believers  in  evangelical  Christianity. 
Her  voice  is  yet  to  be  heard,  and  let  me  say  that  when  she 
ceases  to  speak  on  the  burning  questions  of  evangelical  theology 
her  glory  will  have  departed.  Dr.  Green  belongs  to  a  body  of 
scholars  and  theologians  who  are  now  giving,  and  to  a  body  of 
scholars  and  theologians  —  notably  the  Alexanders  and  the 
Hodges — who  have  given  Princeton  the  conspicuous  place  she 
holds  to-day  as  a  great  centre  of  theological  opinion. 

Princeton  Theological  Seminary  is  an  ecclesiastical  institu- 
tion. It  is  under  the  control  of  the  Presbyterian  General 
Assembly,  and  does  its  work  within  the  limitations  of  a  well- 
defined  confessional  area.  I  am  far  from  saying  that  there  is  or 
should  be  no  place  for  the  free  handling  of  theological  subjects, 
but  I  am  very  sure  that  that  place  is  not  to  be  found  in  an 
institution  the  final  cause  of  whose  existence  is  the  perpetua- 
tion and  defence  of  the  Calvinistic  system.  Dr.  Green,  then, 
as  it  is  not  necessary  for  me  to  say,  is  a  Presbyterian  and  a  Cal- 
vinist,  and  the  service  he  has  rendered  Christendom  has  been  in 
connection  with  and  as  a  minister  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 
Our  Church  has  no  reason  to  be  ashamed  of  the  work  she  has 
done  in  any  of  the  legitimate  spheres  of  church  work.  She 
has  preached  the  Gospel  at  home  and  abroad.  She  has  been 
interested  in  the  cause  of  education,  and  has  assumed  her  full 
share  of  responsibility  in  regard  to  philanthropic  movements. 
She  has  contributed  to  the  advancement  of  theological  learning, 
and  she  has  defended  the  faith  once  for  all  given  to  the  saints ; 
and  Dr.  Green,  through  all  of  his  long  career,  has  been  one  of 
her  trusted  leaders.  He  has  not  been  seen  often  in  church  courts, 
nor  is  he  fond  of  debate.  His  life  has  been  that  of  a  modest,  retir- 
ing scholar,  but  he  has  lived  in  closest  sympathy  with  the  life 
of  the  Church  he  serves.  In  1891  the  Church  honored  herself 
quite  as  much  as  she  honored  him  in  inviting  him  to  preside 
over  the  deliberations  of  her  General  Assembly.    He  was  a  mem- 


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39 


ber,  also,  of  the  committee  appointed  by  a  previous  Assembly 
in  reference  to  a  proposed  revision  of  the  Confession  of  Faith. 
He  represented  a  conservative  view  of  that  question,  but  he  was 
so  patient,  so  gentle,  so  tolerant  of  opposing  views,  so  hospitable 
to  suggestion,  and  so  ready  to  welcome  light,  so  willing  to  make 
concessions,  and  so  strong  and  convincing  in  the  presentation  of 
his  own  matured  opinions  in  regard  to  any  pending  question, 
that  there  was  no  one  who  commanded,  I  think,  quite  so  much 
as  he  did  the  deferential  regard  of  the  whole  committee,  and  by 
none  was  this  more  freely  accorded  than  by  those  who,  never- 
theless, were  compelled  to  adopt   opinions  differing  from  his 


own. 


But  Dr.  Green  has  lived  in  an  atmosphere  of  thought  less 
distinctively  denominational  than  that  of  some  of  his  colleagues, 
for  some  of  the  chairs  in  a  theological  seminary  are  obviously  in 
closer   relation   with   distinctively    denominational    ideas   than 
others.    The  Professor  of  Church  Polity,  for  instance,  is  obliged 
to  antagonize  prelacy,  and    the    Professor  of    Dogmatics    must 
defend  the  Calvinistic  positions  in  opposition  to  Arminianism  ; 
but   it   is  otherwise  with  the  occupant  of  the  chair  of  Hebrew. 
There  is  nothing  denominational  about  the " apocopated  future" 
or  the  "  vav  conversive."    The  Roman  Catholic  and  the  Protes- 
tant have  the  same  interest  in  the  Prophecy  of  Isaiah.     Presby- 
terians and  Anglicans  are  alike  concerned  in  regard  to  the  truth 
of  the  Pentateuchal  narrative.     One  cannot  help  thinking  that 
there  is  something  specially  catholicizing  about  the  department 
of  Old  Testament  Criticism.     One  feels  about  it  as  Delitzsch 
does  about  apologetics,  that  it  is  really  an  irenic  discipline;  that 
this  is  a  sphere  where  scholarship  obliterates  sectarianism  and 
that,  meeting  on  the  common  ground  of  interest  in  the  truth  of 
the  Old  Testament    narrative,   Roman   Catholic    and    Protes- 
tant defenders  of  the  faith,  can  greet  each  other  with  a  hearty 
pax  vobiscum.     I  do  not  doubt,  therefore,  that  Dr.  Green  felt 
quite  at  home  when  he  took  his  seat  as  a  member  of  the  com- 
pany of  Old  Testament  revisers  among  his  brethren  of  other 
denominations.     I  have  no  doubt,  also,  that    he  entered  con 
amort  with  his  co-committeemen  upon  the  work  of  trying  to 
establish    a  modus  vivendi  between   Presbyterians    and    Epis- 


4°  ADDRESSES 

copalians,  which,  if  it  could  not  bring  us  together  under 
one  corporate  name,  might,  it  was  hoped,  bring  us  into  closer 
denominational  relations.  I  refer  to  these  services  that  Dr. 
Green  has  rendered  because  they  ought  not  to  be  omitted 
and  there  are  other  services,  I  dare  say,  which  might  also  be 
mentioned.  But  none  of  these  enter  conspicuously  into  the 
estimate  which  we  are  making  of  his  life.  There  are  some  men 
who  are  able  to  do  several  things  fairly  well,  and  their  claim 
to  recognition,  if  they  have  any,  consists  in  their  versatility. 
But  Dr.  Green's  greatness  consists  in  the  fact  that  he  has 
brought  the  resources  of  a  powerful  intellect  to  bear  upon  a 
single  theme,  and  that  he  has  given  it  his  untiring  and  undi- 
vided attention  through  fifty  years.  That  theme  is  the  Old 
Testament.  By  narrowing  his  work  he  has  widened  his  influ- 
ence; and  in  what  is  the  latest  product  of  his  pen  he  has  made 
every  one  his  debtor— be  he  Jew  or  Christian,  be  he  Roman 
Catholic  or  Protestant — who  looks  upon  the  Old  Testament 
as  a  revelation  from  God. 

Dr.  Green's  services  to  the  Church  at  large  cannot  be 
separated  from  his  service  to  the  Presbyterian  Church,  for  the 
simple  reason  that  the  best  way  for  any  man  to  serve  the 
Church  at  large  is  to  do  his  best  to  serve  the  church  to  which 
he  belongs  and  within  the  institutional  limits  which  define  his 
life.  Dr.  Green  has  been  a  patient,  laborious  professor  in  the 
chair  of  Old  Testament  Literature  in  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary,  and  if  we  wish  to  know  what  service  he  has  rendered 
the  Church  at  large,  we  must  see  what  he  is  as  a  teacher,  a 
scholar,  and  a  defender  of  the  faith. 

Dr.  Green  has  honored  the  teacher's  calling.  He  has  not 
found  in  the  claims  of  authorship  an  excuse  for  seeking  release 
from  the  burdens  of  the  class-room,  and  he  has  revealed  to  us 
a  secret  which  all  teachers  would  do  well  to  profit  by,  to  wit, 
that  the  way  to  keep  strong  in  the  chair  is  to  keep  busy  in  the 
study.  Dr.  Green's  teaching  has  covered  the  whole  field  of 
Old  Testament  learning.  His  students  have  learned  the  para- 
digms of  the  Hebrew  verb  out  of  his  grammar.  They  have 
studied  exegesis  under  his  guidance.  He  has  made  them 
acquainted    with  the    Jewish    institutions,   and    has  led   them 


ADDRESSES  4I 

through  the  mazes  of  Old  Testament  criticism  to  safe  and  sure 
positions  respecting  the  authority  of  the  Bible.  He  has  not 
read  the  Bible  with  a  shake  of  the  head  or  a  shrug  of  the 
shoulders.  No  one  has  had  his  faith  in  the  Bible  weakened  as 
a  result  of  Dr.  Green's  teaching,  though  this  result  may  easily 
happen  when,  on  the  one  hand,  a  strong  man  betrays  sympathy 
with  the  sceptical  side  of  the  debate,  or,  on  the  other  hand,  a 
weak  man  makes  ineffectual  efforts  to  defend  the  truth.  Dr. 
Green's  students  have  always  known  that  he  was  a  devout 
believer  in  the  Bible  as  the  Word  of  God,  and  that  he  could 
cope  with  any  man  in  defending  his  belief. 

A  man  may  be  a  great  teacher  without  being  a  great  scholar, 
but  it  adds  immensely  to  a  man's  power  in  the  class-room   if 
his  students  know  that   he   is  a  recognized   authority   in   the 
department  with  which  he  deals.     There  never  was  any  doubt 
in  the  minds  of  Dr.  Green's  students  about   his  commanding 
position  in  the  field  of  Hebrew  scholarship,  and    his  work  is  a 
good  example  of  what  we  ought  to  expect   in   our  theological 
seminaries.     I  know  that  the  seminary  is  a  place  for  the  prac- 
tical training  of  ministers,  but  it  is  also  a  place  for  advanced 
scientific    research     in    theology.     The    professors    should    be 
teachers,    but    they    should    be    scholars,  too,  and  we    should 
have  more  of  them   than  we  now  have.     There  never  was  a 
time    when   learning    was   more    needed    than   to-day,  and    it 
is    nowhere    more    needed    than    in    the    sphere  of   theology. 
We    have    men    enough,  perhaps,    who    deal    with    ideas    a°nd 
manipulate   notions.       We    have    dialectic    enough   and    rhet- 
oric  enough  and    to   spare.       We  need  men    who    can  speak 
authoritatively  out  of  the  abundance  of  minute  and  specialized 
knowledge.     We  have  no  lack  of  men  who  can  parade  second- 
hand erudition,  who  can  adopt  the  latest  theory  advanced  in 
German   lecture-rooms  and   set   up  early  in  life  as  the  apostles 
of  new  ideas  or  as  adepts  in  the  art  of  drafting  articles  of  com- 
promise between  old  faiths  and  new  hypotheses.     But  we  need 
men  like  Salmon  of  Dublin,  and    Lightfoot  of  Durham,  and 
Green  of  Princeton,  who  can  come  to  the  consideration  of  the 
burning  questions  in  history  and  criticism  with  the  authority 
and  independence  which  are  the  result  of  ripe  scholarship  and 


42  ADDRESSES 

minute  knowledge  of  the  sources,  and  can  speak  in  a  way  that 
will  refute  error  and  stop  the  mouths  of  adversaries. 

And  this  leads  me  to  say  that  Dr.  Green  has  rendered  his 
greatest  service  to  the  Church  as  a  defender  of  the  faith.  We 
all  understand  that  there  has  been  an  attempt  on  the  part  of 
the  higher  critics  of  the  Old  Testament  to  dissect  the  Penta- 
teuch, and  show  that  it  is  composite  in  its  authorship,  and  that 
its  contents  are  or  can  be  distributed  among  certain  unknown 
authors  whom  they  call  J,  Ji,  P,  Q  and  R.  I  shall  not  enter  upon 
the  complicated  algebra  of  Pentateuchal  analysis.  Suffice  it  to 
say  that,  whether  on  the  grounds  of  literary  criticism  the  con- 
tents of  the  Pentateuch  be  divided  between  the  Jehovist,  the 
Elohist,  and  the  Redactor,  or  whether  on  the  basis  of  the 
evolution  hypothesis  the  three  Mosaic  codes  be  made  to  cover 
the  whole  period  from  Moses  to  the  exile,  the  effect  of  this  is 
materially  to  change  our  faith  in  the  Old  Testament.  And  I 
wish  to  say  that  the  question  about  the  Pentateuch  is  not  a 
question  regarding  the  inerrancy  of  the  Bible  ;  it  is  not  a  ques- 
tion about  the  inspiration  of  the  Bible;  it  is  a  question  about 
the  truth  of  the  Bible.  The  signal  service  which  Dr.  Green 
has  rendered  the  Church  is  that  in  connection  with  this  con- 
troversy— in  his  reply  to  Colenso  in  1863,  in  his  Hebrew  Feasts, 
in  his  articles  in  the  Presbyterian  Review,  in  his  articles  in 
Hcbraica,  and  now  in  the  two  books  which  have  just  come 
from  his  pen — he  has  been  a  defender  of  the  historical  trust- 
worthiness of  the  books  of  Moses.  Now,  there  are  several 
ways  in  which  this  problem  may  be  handled ;  in  which,  as  a 
matter  of  fact,  it  has  been  handled. 

There  were  those,  I  suppose  there  are  still  those,  who  say 
that  the  theological  seminary  is  not  the  place  to  teach  the  higher 
criticism,  and  that  the  Old  Testament  professor  should  interpret 
the  Bible  and  not  try  to  defend  it.  I  am  free  to  say  that  I 
have  no  sympathy  with  this  view,  and  I  do  not  think  that  Dr. 
Green  has.  If  men  suppose  that  this  is  the  way  to  deal  with 
students  at  the  present  time,  they  do  not  understand  students. 

There  are  those  who  seem  to  think  that,  having  accepted 
the  doctrine  of  inspiration,  they  have  only  to  quote  from  the 
Bible  a  statement  that  the  Pentateuch  was  written  by  Moses  in 


ADDRESSES  43 

order  to  silence  the  adversary.  This  is  a  very  easy  sort  of 
apologetic.  It  needs  but  little  learning  in  order  to  employ  it, 
and  ordinarily  those  who  do  employ  it  have  but  little.  Dr. 
Green  is  too  wise  a  man  to  do  this.  He  knows  that  the  doc- 
trine of  inspiration  is  itself  an  induction  from  the  facts  of 
Scripture,  and  that  if  the  facts  of  Scripture  were  to  force  him  to 
an  acceptance  of  the  critic's  conclusion  regarding  the  author- 
ship of  the  Pentateuch,  he  would  be  forced,  also,  to  modify 
his  views  of  inspiration. 

Again,  there  are  those  who  deal  with  the  problem  by  show- 
ing the  unfavorable  consequences  which  would  follow  from 
the  acceptance  of  the  theory  of  Pentateuchal  analysis.  They 
show  that  it  destroys  all  confidence  in  the  truth  of  the  Old 
Testament  ;  that  being  part  of  a  naturalistic  philosophy  of 
religion,  the  elimination  of  the  supernatural  from  the  Old  Tes- 
tament will  naturally  be  followed  by  the  elimination  of  the 
supernatural  from  the  New  Testament.  I  confess  that  this  is  a 
very  important  service  to  render.  Hebrew  scholars  seem  some- 
times not  to  know  the  logical  consequences  of  their  theory, 
which  men  without  any  claim  to  Hebrew  scholarship  are  quick 
enough  to  perceive.  Dr.  Green  sees  these  consequences,  and 
you  will  find  an  admirable  account  of  the  status  qucstionis  in 
his  little  book  on  the  higher  criticism  of  the  Pentateuch.  I 
wish,  indeed,  that  men  who  think  that  the  Christian  world  is 
fighting  over  a  question  of  inerrancy  would  read  that  little  book. 
It  would  open  their  eyes,  I  think,  to  the  magnitude  of  this 
Pentateuchal  question. 

And  yet,  again,  there  are  those,  I  think,  who  approach  the 
subject  in  the  spirit  of  a  concessive  apologetic.  They  say:  con- 
ceding all  that  is  asked  by  the  higher  criticism,  it  is,  nevertheless, 
true  that  the  gradual  evolution  of  religious  thought  has  reached 
its  climax  in  Christianity.  There  has  been  a  gradual  unfolding 
of  a  Messianic  idea  that  finds  its  fulfilment  in  the  advent  of 
Christ.  There  are  exceptional  facts  of  an  historic  kind,  such  as 
the  conversion  of  Paul  and  the  resurrection  of  Christ,  which  are 
sufficient  to  assure  us  of  our  supernatural  Christianity.  And  I 
think  that  there  is,  undoubtedly,  great  value  attaching  to  this 
form  of  apologetic.     You  will  observe,  however,  that  none  of 


44  ADDRESSES 

these  methods  meet  the  objectors,  for  they  either  assume  that 
the  critics  are  wrong  or  they  are  trying  to  show  what  would 
happen  supposing  they  are  right. 

But  Dr.  Green  has  undertaken  to  show  that  from  Astruc  to 
Wellhausen  there  has  not  been  a  single  theory  in  support  of  the 
composite  authorship  of  the  Pentateuch  that  will  stand  criti- 
cism. He  has  left  to  others  the  task  of  showing  what  will  hap- 
pen if  the  critics  are  right,  and  he  has  devoted  himself  to  the 
task  of  showing  that  the  critics  are  wrong.  He  has  come  to  the 
study  of  this  problem  in  the  maturity  of  his  powers  ;  he  has 
brought  to  bear  upon  it  ripe  scholarship,  minute  and  intimate 
knowledge  of  the  Scriptures,  and  complete  acquaintance  with 
the  critical  literature.  And  with  marvellous  patience,  with  re- 
morseless logic,  with  great  power  of  statement,  with  infinite 
skill  in  the  management  of  his  material,  he  has  put  together  an 
overwhelming  refutation  of  the  claims  of  the  theorists.  He 
has  shown  that  it  is  impossible  to  separate  the  Pentateuch  into 
a  series  of  different  documents,  and  that,  save  for  the  anti- 
supernatural  bias  that  controls  discussion,  there  is  absolutely  no 
reason  for  doubting  its  Mosaic  authorship.  This  book  on  the 
Unity  of  the  Book  of  Genesis  is  Dr.  Green's  masterpiece.  It 
is  a  masterpiece,  I  venture  to  say,  in  the  realm  of  scholarly 
polemic.  It  takes  rank  among  the  classics  of  apologetic  litera- 
ture, and  it  gives  its  author  a  foremost  place  among  the  few 
great  apologists  of  the  world. 


DR.  GREEN'S    REPLY. 

Fellow- Alumni,  Brethren  and  Friends: 

I  have  no  words  to  express  my  gratitude  for  this  very  touching 
exhibition  of  kindly  feeling.  I  thank  you,  one  and  all,  most  sin- 
cerely for  honoring  this  anniversary  by  your  presence.  It  is  very 
gratifying  to  see  again  the  faces  of  those  well  known  in  former 
years,  who  have  since  been  scattered  far  and  near,  and  now  have 
come  up  hitherto  testify  their  continued  affection  for  and  confi- 
dence in  the  alma  mater,  where  we  alike  received  our  first  lessons 
in  theological  lore.    And  we  cordially  welcome  among  us  to-day 


AbDKciSES  45 

the  representatives  of  sister  institutions  that  are  co-workers  in  the 
promotion  of  Christian  scholarship,  whose  friendly  greetings  we 
are  proud  to  receive  and  gladly  reciprocate.  There  is  no  richer 
earthly  treasure  than  the  approval  of  the  wise  and  good.  One 
must  be  insensible,  indeed,  not  to  be  deeply  affected  by  such  a 
manifestation  as  is  here  presented.  And  the  graceful  words 
of  generous  commendation  which  have  been  spoken  by  those 
whose  esteem  I  highly  value  are  very  warmly  appreciated,  how- 
ever the  utterances  may  be  colored  by  the  partialities  of  friend- 
ship. 

Princeton  Seminary  stands,  as  it  has  always  stood,  for 
fidelity  to  the  Word  of  God  and  the  standards  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church.  At  the  same  time  it  stands  for  the  highest  grade 
of  Biblical  and  theological  learning.  It  welcomes  all  the  light 
that  can  be  thrown  upon  the  Scriptures  from  every  quarter,  and 
does  not  shrinl"  from  the  application  of  the  most  rigorous  tests 
to  the  question  of  their  origin  or  the  nature  of  their  contents. 
Convinced  by  the  most  abundant  evidence  that  these  Scriptures 
are  the  infallible  word  of  God,  and  that  their  teachings  are  the 
utterances  of  divinely  sanctioned  truth,  this  Seminary  has 
always  maintained  that  sound  learning  will  ever  go  hand  in 
hand  with  implicit  faith  in  this  sacred  volume. 

It  was  upon  this  basis  that  Princeton  Seminary  was  origi- 
nally founded.  It  was  with  the  unanimous  purpose  of  establishing 
an  institution  where  this  cardinal  position  should  be  firmly  held 
and  faithfully  inculcated  that  the  Presbyterian  Church  resolved 
to  plant  here  this  its  oldest  Seminary.  This  was  the  unwavering 
faith  of  those  who  were  most  directly  instrumental  in  drafting 
its  plan,  in  laying  its  first  foundations,  in  giving  shape  and  direc- 
tion to  it  in  every  respect  at  the  outset  of  its  career.  This  was 
the  fixed  and  intelligent  conviction  of  its  first  professors.  That 
splendid  quaternion  of  teachers,  Drs.  Archibald  Alexander, 
Samuel  Miller,  Charles  Hodge,  and  Addison  Alexander,  were 
the  glory  and  the  crown  of  this  Seminary  in  former  years,  gave 
it  its  reputation  before  the  Church  and  the  world,  and  in  the 
protracted  period  during  which  they  were  spared  to  guide  its 
affairs  and  to  conduct  its  instruction,  stamped  their  own  character 
upon  it,  as  I  trust,  indelibly.      Under  them  Princeton  theology 


4&  ADDRESSES 

gained  a  definite  and  well  understood  meaning,  which,  it  is  to 
be  hoped,  it  will  never  lose ;  from  which  may  it  never  swerve. 
They  whose  privilege  it  was,  as  it  was  mine,  to  sit  at  the  feet  of 
those  great  and  honored  preceptors,  will  bear  their  testimony 
that  reverence  for  the  revealed  Word  of  God  was  a  prominent 
feature  of  their  instructions,  and  was  constantly  illustrated  not 
only  by  the  teachings  of  the  class-room,  but  by  their  whole 
spirit  and  life.  And  all  the  wealth  of  their  learning,  all  the 
fruit  of  their  reflections,  their  studies  and  their  researches  were 
made  to  contribute  to  the  exposition,  the  illumination,  and  the 
exaltation  of  the  Bible. 

I  happen  to  be  the  only  remaining  link  between  the  original 
faculty  of  the  Seminary  and  its  present  faculty.  I  was  appointed 
to  my  professorship  and  entered  upon  its  duties  while  the  first 
professor,  Dr.  Archibald  Alexander,  still  survived.  And  I  can 
testify  that  all  the  professors  appointed  since,  the  great  majority 
of  whom  were  trained  in  this  Seminary,  have  cordially  and 
earnestly  taken  the  same  attitude  toward  the  Scriptures  that  was 
so  steadfastly  held  by  their  predecessors.  I  can  confidently 
appeal  to  all  the  alumni  of  this  institution,  from  first  to  last,  to 
bear  witness,  that  but  one  sentiment  on  this  subject  has  ever 
found  utterance  in  its  halls.  And  I  believe  that  the  great  body 
of  those  who  have  gone  forth  from  it  to  preach  the  everlasting 
Gospel  of  the  grace  of  God  in  this  and  other  lands  have  stood 
firmly  by  the  instructions  which  they  here  received  on  this 
fundamental  matter,  and  that  they  have  not  weakened  the 
power  of  that  divine  message  which  they  were  charged  to  bear 
to  immortal  men  by  entertaining  or  suggesting  doubts  as  to  the 
genuineness  of  the  books  of  the  Bible,  or  the  truth  and  authority 
of  its  contents,  or  inculcating  such  a  low  view  of  inspiration  as 
would  be  no  guarantee  of  the  trustworthiness  of  the  sacred 
record. 

It  has  sometimes  been  said  depreciatingly  that  Princeton 
stands  almost  alone  and  in  opposition  to  all  modern  scholar- 
ship in  its  adherence  to  that  doctrine  of  Holy  Scripture,  which 
has  been  the  universal  Christian  creed  from  the  beginning  and 
is  embodied  in  the  standards  of  every  historic  Church  in  every 
land.     They  who  speak  thus  honor  Princeton  overmuch.      She 


ADDRESSES  47 

is  not  so  solitary  as  some  would  seem  to  imagine.  Even  in 
Germany  university-bred  men  among  the  pastors  are  lifting  their 
voices  against  the  defection  of  university  professors  and  boldly 
challenging  their  positions.  There  are  numerous  indications 
that  the  scholars  of  Great  Britain  are  not  all  willing  to  follow 
in  the  wake  of  Drs.  Cheyne  and  Driver.  And  in  this  country 
the  faculties  of  nearly  every  theological  seminary  in  all  the 
various  branches  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  are  a  unit  in  main- 
taining the  trustworthiness,  the  genuineness,  and  the  infallible 
inspiration  of  the  books  of  Holy  Scripture.  And  if  any  one 
of  them  has  swung  off  from  this  common  foundation,  it  has 
thereby  antagonized  the  faith  of  the  Church  to  which  it  pro- 
fessedly belongs,  the  faith  which  the  Seminary  was  itself 
founded  to  defend  and  propagate,  the  faith  which  its  former 
most  distinguished  professors  devoutly  held  and  constantly 
taught.  And  the  theological  faculties  of  other  denominations 
of  Christians  have  their  numerous  scholars  who  are  in  full 
sympathy  with  all  that  has  ever  been  taught  in  Princeton  on 
this  subject.  We  have  nothing  to  boast  of  in  this  respect  which 
has  not  been  the  common  faith  of  Christendom  from  the  begin- 
ning; and  so  long  as  the  Spirit  of  God  rules  in  the  hearts  of 
men  His  revealed  Word  will  be  held  in  high  honor  amongst 
them.  There  need  be  no  fear  that  the  Word  of  God  will  not 
triumph  in  the  end,  and,  in  spite  of  all  contradiction,  vindicate 
its  right  to  all  that  it  claims  for  itself. 

Once  more,  dear  brethren,  I  thank  you  for  your  presence 
here  to-day  and  for  the  kind  and  encouraging  words  which 
have  been  spoken  in  your  name.  May  the  blessing  of  Him, 
whose  we  are  and  whom  we  serve,  rest  in  rich  measure  upon 
you  all. 


CONGRATULATORY    ADDRESSES 


FROM    THE    PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH    IN    THE 
UNITED   STATES   OF   AMERICA. 

by  the  rev.  robert  russell  booth,  d.d.,  ll.d., 
moderator  of  the  general  assembly. 

Dr.  Greex  :  Honored  and  Beloved  Brother  : 

It  has  been  made  my  privilege  to  participate  in  these  most 
interesting  scenes,  by  presenting  to  you,  within  the  limits  of 
five  minutes,  the  congratulations  of  the  Church  of  which  you 
have  nearly  all  your  life  been  a  member,  and  which  a  few  years 
ago  unanimously  called  you  to  its  highest  position  of  honor.  I 
am  well  assured  that  throughout  our  great  membership  there 
is  a  common  sentiment  of  approbation  and  rejoicing  over  the 
long,  and  useful,  and  happy  career  which  you  are  here  this  day 
to  celebrate.  It  is,  indeed,  true  that  no  formal  resolution  has 
commissioned  the  present  Moderator  to  speak  thus  in  behalf  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church.  Had  the  General  Assembly  been 
recently  in  session,  or  had  it  foreseen  this  occasion,  there  is  little 
doubt  that  the  common  feeling  would  have  found  some  such 
expression  in  terms  well  suited  to  the  career  of  one  who  has  so 
well  served  the  Church  by  example,  and  influence,  and  testi- 
mony. But  we  need  have  no  misgivings  as  to  the  reality  of 
such  a  widespread  and  cordial  interest  in  this  celebration.  The 
great  heart  of  our  beloved  Church  is  speaking  here  to-day  by 
this  unparalleled  assembly  of  her  sons,  who,  coming  from  many 
States  and  many  lands,  attest  their  love  and  gratitude  to  the 
wise  teacher,  the  faithful  friend,  and  the  strong  defender  of  the 
faith. 

We  recognize  on  this  occasion  the  noble  service  you  have 
rendered  during  these  fifty  years  as  a  theological  instructor. 
The  students  you  have  trained  have  gone  out  from  under  your 
influence  carefully  instructed  in  the  language  and  literature  of 


52  CONGRATULATORY  ADDRESSES 

the  Old  Testament  and  bearing  the  impress  of  a  character  dig- 
nified, pure,  and  ever  faithful  to  truth.  Thus  you  have  been 
living  through  these  years  in  thousands  of  hearts  who  now  serve 
the  Church  in  so  many  fields  at  home  and  abroad. 

But  I  must  not  fail  in  this  brief  congratulation  to  mention 
the  more  important  service  which  you  have  rendered  to  the 
Church,  in  these  later  years,  in  that  great  controversy  concern- 
ing the  authenticity  and  truthfulness  of  the  Old  Testament 
Scriptures,  which  has  been  one  of  the  phases  of  the  larger  con- 
flict between  naturalism  and  supernaturalism  in  our  day.  The 
Church  has  turned  to  you  with  strong  confidence  and  calm  as- 
surance in  this  great  crisis.  This  believing  Church  of  God, 
which  has  clearly  recognized  the  essential  bearing  of  this  ques- 
tion upon  the  very  existence  of  our  holy  religion,  has  seen  in 
you  its  standard-bearer  in  this  conflict,  and  has  realized  that,  as 
it  was  in  the  Arian  controversy  of  the  olden  time,  so  in  this 
great  debate,  you  have  been  to  us  an  "  Athanasius  against  the 
world." 

Those  two  notable  books  which  are  the  product  of  your 
most  mature  thought  and  learning,  "  The  Unity  of  the  Book 
of  Genesis"  and  "The  Higher  Criticism  of  the  Pentateuch," 
afford  a  solid  basis  for  the  ministers  and  members  of  this 
Church  to  stand  upon  as  they  maintain  its  ancient  doctrine 
concerning  the  Scriptures  of  the  Old  Testament.  For  if  it  is 
impossible  for  a  finished  scholar,  trained  by  fifty  years  of  special 
Hebrew  study,  to  have  arrived  at  a  knowledge  of  elemental 
truth  on  such  a  subject,  then  we  may  well  conclude  that  there 
is  no  rational  conclusion  possible  on  the  one  side  or  the  other. 

And  so  we  are  content  as  a  Church  to  take  the  verdict  on 
this  question  from  one  whose  character  for  firmness,  whose 
purity  of  life  and  teaching,  and  whose  thorough  knowledge  of 
the  ancient  Scriptures  render  his  decision  adequate  and  final  in 
any  age  of  time. 

This,  then,  is  our  conviction,  and  in  this  spirit  we  utter  our 
congratulations  for  the  great  work  you  have  accomplished  as  a 
defender  of  the  faith. 

And  so  to-day  this  Church  of  ours,  out  of  its  loving  heart, 
sends   forth   a  greeting  to  the  man  who  has  strengthened  her 


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hold  upon  the  Bible  and  has  thus  given  validity  to  her  im- 
mortal hope  and  to  her  mission  of  salvation  in  the  name  of 
Christ. 

And  perhaps  it  is  not  an  unwarranted  stretch  of  the  imag- 
ination, if  one  is  reminded,  as  he  surveys  the  varied  features  of 
this  impressive  scene  to-day,  of  an  historical  event  in  old 
Hebrew  history,  in  the  time  of  the  captivity,  when  Mordecai, 
the  Jew  eminent  for  services  to  the  Persian  State,  was  led 
through  the  streets  of  the  city  of  Shushan,  and  it  was  pro- 
claimed before  him,  while  the  people  rent  the  air  with  approv- 
ing shouts :  "  Thus  shall  it  be  done  to  the  man  whom  the  king 
delighteth  to  honor." 


FROM   OUR   SISTER  CHURCHES. 

by  the  rev.  trofessor  william  m.  mcpheeters,  d.d.,  of 
columbia  theological  seminary. 

Mr.  Chairman  : 

I  esteem  it  a  rare  pleasure  and  privilege  to  be  with  you  on 
this  auspicious  occasion.  The  place  and  the  event  alike  conspire 
to  fan  the  enthusiasm  of  the  Presbyterian  heart  into  a  flame. 
Princeton  !  What  Presbyterian — North,  South,  East,  or  West — 
does  not  know  and  revere  the  name  ?  With  many  of  us  it  is 
associated  with  tender  ancestral  memories;  with  all  of  us 
it  stands  for  whatever  is  vigorous  in  thought,  sound  in  philoso- 
phy, wise  in  counsel,  pure  in  doctrine,  lofty  in  principle,  and 
holy  and  inspiring  in  example.  Fragrant  with  the  memories 
consecrated  by  the  ashes  of  our  Alexanders,  our  Miller,  our 
Hodges — not  to  mention  other  great  and  venerable  names — if 
we  were  not  in  principle  opposed  to  sacred  places,  this  would 
certainly  be  the  Mecca  of  all  American  Presbyterians.  Though 
not  our  Mecca,  Princeton  is  in  a  true  and  gracious  sense  the 
dear  and  honored  mother  of  us  all. 

Hence,  standing  here  to-day,  confident  that  I  but  voice  their 
common  sentiment,  I  extend  to  this  noble  school  of  the  prophets 
the  hearty,  unqualified  congratulations  of   all  upon  this  con- 


54  CONGRATULATORY  ADDRESSES 

tinent  who  bear  the  Presbyterian  name  or  profess  the  Presby- 
terian faith.  I  congratulate  her  that  she  has  accomplished  with 
such  distinguished  success  the  difficult  task  of  ever  making  her 
present  worthy  of  her  illustrious  past.  I  congratulate  her  on  the 
fact  that,  great  as  has  been  her  fertility  in  the  past  in  raising  up 
worthy  and  able  champions  for  the  truth  of  God,  the  event  we 
celebrate  is  itself  the  most  convincing  evidence  that  that  fertility 
is  yet  as  great  as  ever.  May  I  speak  freely,  Mr.  Chairman  ?  If 
so,  sincerely  desiring  to  give  offence  unto  none,  merely  giving 
expression  to  what  I  believe  to  be  the  feeling  of  the  great  mass 
of  American  Presbyterians — preachers  and  people  alike — I  con- 
gratulate Princeton  Seminary  that  in  this  evil  day,  when  God's 
Word  is,  as  many  of  us  believe,  being  betrayed  in  the  house  of  its 
friends,  her's  has  been  the  privilege,  her's  the  honor,  of  raising  up 
one  who,  in  the  opinion  of  so  competent  and  impartial  a  judge 
as  Dr.  William  Hayes  Ward,  is  "  by  general  consent  the  leading 
defender  in  this  country,  if  not  in  the  world,  of  the  authenticity 
and  integrity  of  the  Mosaic  books"— high  praise,  but  none  too 
high. 

I  congratulate  her  in  view  of  the  fact  that  this  celebration,  if 
it  means  anything,  if  it  is  more  than  an  empty  pageant,  means 
that  Princeton  stands  pledged  to  use  every  effort  to  rally  the 
entire  American  Church  to  the  support  not  of  any  denomina- 
tional shibboleth,  but  of  a  position  vital  to  the  welfare,  if  not 
to  the  very  existence,  of  our  common  Christianity.  I  refer,  of 
course,  to  the  position  that  the  Old  Testament  as  little  as  the 
New  is  a  "  cunningly  devised  fable,"  that  the  Old  Testament  as 
surely  as  the  New  is  "  the  Scriptures  of  truth,"  the  oracles  of 
God.  For  hide  it  as  men  may,  even  from  their  own  eyes,  by 
smooth  and  fair  words,  that,  and  nothing  less  than  that,  is  the 
issue  with  which  the  Church  stands  confronted  at  this  hour. 
No  one  has  more  clearly  discerned  the  true  nature  of  the  vital 
importance  of  the  issue  which  is  now,  so  unfortunately,  being 
thrust  upon  the  American  Church  than  your  own  distinguished 
scholar,  whom  we  all  this  day  delight  to  honor. 

And  now,  venerable  father,  on  behalf  of  my  own  dear  Church, 
and  on  behalf  of  multitudes  of  the  ministers  and  people  of  the 
American  Church,  without  distinction  of  name  or  creed,  I  con- 


CONGRATULATORY   ADDRESSES  55 

gratulate  you  that  God  has  spared  your  life  and  strength  to  this 
happy  hour;  and  that  as  a  partial  reward  of  your  consecrated 
labors  He  permits  you  to-day  to  get  a  glimpse  of  the  high 
esteem  in  which  both  you  yourself  and  your  work  are  held  by 
multitudes  of  His  people  in  this  and  other  lands. 

I  congratulate  you  that  the  Great  Head  and  Saviour  of  the 
Church  has  qualified  you,  inclined  you,  and  enabled  you  to 
render  a  service  such  as  few  are  capable  of  rendering,  and  fewer 
still  privileged  to  render  to  the  cause  of  truth. 

I  congratulate  you  that  the  scholarly  productions  of  your 
gifted  pen  promise  to  be  not  only  a  permanent  monument  to 
your  own  honor  and  to  that  of  this  Institution,  but — what  is 
better — a  permanent  testimony  to  the  truth  of  God  and,  by  His 
blessing,  an  effective  bulwark  against  one  of  the  strongest  cur- 
rents of  error  that  has  ever  set  in  against  that  truth. 

I  congratulate  you  that  you  have  been  permitted  to  ground 
so  many  hundreds  of  faithful  ministers  in  sound  principles  of 
interpretation  ;  that  you  have  had  no  mean  part  in  giving  to 
Princeton  Seminary  its  present  prestige. 

I  congratulate  you  that  you  have  so  borne  yourself  in  all 
your  controversies  as  not  only  to  have  won  the  admiration  and 
applause  of  your  friends,  but — what  is  far  harder — that  you 
have  so  borne  yourself  as  to  have  secured  the  genuine  respect 
even  of  those  who  have  differed  from  you  most  widely ;  their 
respect  for  your  extensive  and  accurate  learning,  your  keenness 
of  insight  and  force  of  logic,  and  last,  but  not  least,  for  a  certain 
lofty  candor  and  courtesy,  which,  as  they  had  no  need,  had  also 
no  inclination,  to  substitute  declamation  for  demonstration  or 
abuse  for  argument. 

In  conclusion,  it  gives  me  sincere  pleasure  to  bring  to  you 
to-day  congratulatory  messages  from  a  large  number  of  repre- 
sentative men  who  are  entitled  to  speak  for  their  respective 
churches,  and  to  assure  you  that  it  is  the  fervent  prayer  of  many 
hearts  that  the  Glorious  Head  of  the  Church  may  spare  you 
yet  many  years  and  enable  you  yet  further  to  enrich  her  litera- 
ture with  the  ripe  fruit  of  your  learning  and  your  wisdom,  and 
that  He  may  crown  all  of  His  grace  toward  you  here  with  glory 
in  the  life  to  come. 


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FROM   OUR   SISTER   SEMINARIES. 

by  the  rev.  professor  willis  j.  beecher,  d.d.,  of 
auburn  theological  seminary. 

My  Reverend  and  Esteemed  Friend,  Dr.  Green  : 

The  delightful  task  has  been  assigned  me  of  offering  to  you 
on  this  occasion  the  congratulations  of  "  Our  Sister  Semi- 
naries." No  definition  of  the  term  "Sister  Seminaries"  has 
been  handed  to  me,  and  I  prefer  to  magnify  my  office  by  giv- 
ing the  term  as  wide  a  meaning  as  possible.  There  are  some 
scores  of  theological  schools  in  North  America,  manned  by 
some  hundreds  of  professors,  cared  for  by  many  hundreds  of 
ministers  of  religion  and  interested  laymen,  and  attended  by 
some  thousands  of  students.  A  few  of  these  schools  claim  to 
be  the  older  sisters  of  Princeton  Seminary,  but  a  majority  of 
them,  probably,  have  come  into  existence  since  your  appoint- 
ment to  the  chair  you  hold.  In  most  of  them  some  doctrines 
are  taught  which  you  and  I  disapprove.  In  some  cases  the  dis- 
approval extends  to  a  large  proportion  of  the  doctrines  that 
are  taught.  But,  taken  as  a  whole,  the  theological  instructors 
of  this  continent  are  godly  men,  men  of  learning,  men  who  are 
devoted  to  the  promoting  of  the  interests  of  the  kingdom  of 
God  on  earth,  men  with  whom  it  is  an  honor  to  be  classed. 

It  is  presumption  in  me  to  undertake  to  speak  for  so  august 
a  constituency ;  and  yet  I  doubt  not  that  I  correctly  represent 
this  constituency  when  I  say  that  we  sincerely  congratulate 
you  to-day.  We  congratulate  you  that  you  have  caused  Amer- 
ican scholarship  to  be  recognized  and  respected  throughout  the 
Western,  the  Eastern,  and  the  Australian  continents.  We  con- 
gratulate you  that  no  one  has  ever  doubted  the  earnestness  of 
your  convictions  or  your  courage  or  ability  for  maintaining 
them.  We  congratulate  you  that,  after  half  a  century  of  service, 
your  insight  into  truth  seems  to  remain  undimmed  and  your  in- 
tellectual force  unabated ;  that  your  latest  important  work, 
published  a  few  months  since,  shows  greater  learning  and  greater 
mental  vigor  than  any  of  your  previous  important  publications. 


CONGRATULATORY   ADDRESSES  57 

We  congratulate  you  that  you  have  in  so  high  a  degree  that 
prized  reward  of  the  successful  teacher,  the  warm  affection  and 
enthusiastic  appreciation  of  the  men  into  whose  faces  you  have 
looked  in  the  class-room.  We  congratulate  you  on  the  place 
you  hold  in  the  esteem  of  your  associates  and  of  your  innumer- 
able friends  from  all  quarters ;  that  the  scene  of  to-day  is  not  a 
mere  ovation,  but  a  true  triumphal  march  ;  a  triumph  worthily 
accorded  in  celebration  of  the  victories  of  half  a  hundred  years. 
As  men  interested  in  scholarship,  and  thought,  and  human 
successes,  we  tender  you  these  congratulations.  But  we  do  not 
cease  here.  We  are  also  interested  in  spiritual  things,  in  God, 
in  eternity,  in  the  historical  revelation  of  Himself  which  God 
has  made,  in  the  divine  redemption  for  men,  in  the  present 
Spirit  of  God,  in  the  holy  written  Word.  We  congratulate  you 
that  you  have  for  yourself  an  assured  hope  of  immortality 
through  the  saviour,  whom  you  and  I  worship,  as  our  Lord 
and  God,  and  that  you  have  led  others  into  the  same  blessed 
hope.  We  congratulate  you  on  the  reality  of  that  truth, 
so  influential  in  your  own  career,  that  the  Lord  God  omni- 
potent reigneth ;  and  that  His  purposes  will  not  fail,  either 
through  the  efforts  of  His  enemies  or  through  the  mistakes  and 
weaknesses  of  His  friends.  In  fine,  our  highest  tribute  to  you  is 
this:  that  we  believe  you  are  pleased  to  be  congratulated  not 
so  much  on  your  having  served  the  Master  so  well  as  on  your 
having  such  a  Master  to  serve. 


FROM    DR.   GREEN'S   ALMA   MATER. 

BY   PRESIDENT   ETHELBERT   D.    WARFIELD,    LL.D.,   LAFAYETTE 

COLLEGE. 

Lafayette  College  rejoices  to-day  with  unfeigned  joy  in 
the  career  of  her  son — the  child  of  her  youth.  I  might  with 
truth  declare  that  she  reckons  you  her  most  distinguished 
graduate.  But  she  looks  upon  you  too  much  with  the  true 
mother's  eye  to  count  your  honors  or  recount  your  deeds.  She 
cares  more  for  what  you  are  than  for  what  you  have  done.     Her 


58  CONGRATULATORY  ADDRESSES 

ambition  from  the  time  that  the  wise  Junkin  wedded  her  to 
eternal  truth  has  been  to  make  men 

"  Wise,  steadfast  in  the  strength  of  God,  and  true." 

And  she  has  watched  with  gladness  all  these  years  the  proof 
you  have  given  of  the  early  blessing  that  has  rested  on  her 
dearest  wish. 

As  you  look  back,  over  the  nearly  sixty  years  that  intervene, 
to  the  day  when  you  entered  Lafayette  College,  you  look  upon 
a  day  of  small  things.  It  was  a  very  small  and  unpretentious 
building  that  boasted  the  name  of  college,  the  faculty  were  few 
and  comparatively  undistinguished,  the  students  were  not  many, 
and  very  youthful — yourself  almost  the  youngest  of  them  all. 
But  in  the  teachers  and  the  students  there  was  a  purpose  deep 
and  strong  which  has  given  them  and  the  college  a  claim  upon 
all  this  country  ;  in  the  beautiful  situation  there  was  an  inspira- 
tion sure  to  find  expression  in  later  years ;  and  in  God's  prov- 
idence there  was  a  large  place  for  the  future  of  the  college  and 
the  men  who  sat  beside  you  in  the  class-room.  You  will 
doubtless  recall  some  of  those  familiar  faces  to-day,  but  a  few 
of  whom  remain  to  testify  to  the  vigor  and  force  of  character 
of  the  able  class  of  1840.  Samuel  W.  Barber,  Dorris,  and 
Porter  are  of  those  few;  William  E.  Barber,  Chauvenet,  Elliott, 
and  Richey  are  of  those  who  have  gone  to  receive  the  reward  of 
long  and  useful  lives.  They  all  testify  to  the  same  consecra- 
tion to  the  service  of  God. 

It  has  been  your  peculiar  privilege  to  occupy  a  position  in 
which  you  have  been  able  to  render  a  great  and  notable  service 
to  the  highest  truth.  In  a  day  of  prevalent  apostacy,  in  a 
time  when  knowledge  is  exalted  and  wisdom  is  despised,  you 
have  embraced  the  opportunity,  which  so  many  have  refused, 
to  speak  words  of  soberness  and  strength  in  defence  of  the 
Word  of  God.  Your  alma  mater,  mindful  of  all  your  faithful- 
ness in  many  labors,  congratulates  you  especially  on  the  courage 
and  modesty  which  have  united  to  make  so  great  a  service 
possible. 

Like  Ruth,  our  college  was  won  to  the  Church  from  an  alien 
origin,  and,  like  Ruth,  God  has  made  her  the  mother  of  many 


CONGRATULATORY   ADDRESSES  59 

of  the  faithful.  It  has  been  her  delight  to  send  these  sons  to 
sit  at  your  feet.  However  great  her  solicitude  has  ever  been 
for  the  future  of  her  children,  she  has  never  had  one  moment's 
anxiety  for  what  they  might  learn  here.  She  has  known  too 
well  how  devoted  has  been  your  service  of  the  dear  Elder 
Brother  of  us  all  to  fear  that  in  your  teaching  anything  could 
intrude  which  would  lead  these  younger  brethren  away  from 
the  old  lessons  of  faith  and  duty.  God  grant  that  you  may 
long  continue  to  open  to  successive  classes  the  Word  of  God, 
and  for  yourself, 

May  you  live 
Longer  than  I  have  time  to  tell  the  years 
Ever  beloved  and  loving.     .     .     . 
And  when  old  time  shall  lead  you  to  the  end 
May  you  and  goodness  fill  one  monument. 


FROM  THE  TRUSTEES  OF  PRINCETON  COLLEGE. 

BY    HENRY    M.    ALEXANDER,    LL.D. 

I  FEEL  honored  that  I  have  been  selected  by  the  Trustees  of 
Princeton  University  to  convey  their  congratulations  to  your 
eminent  guest.  When  Dr.  Warfield  notified  me  of  the  desire 
that  I  should  represent  the  College  upon  this  occasion,  he  kindly 
referred  to  the  hereditary  claims  that  the  Seminary  had  upon 
me.  He  might  have  added  that  there  were  hereditary  personal 
reasons  why  I  should  be  called  upon  to  present  congratulations 
to  one  of  the  Greens.  I  recall  the  fact  that  the  most  intimate 
friends  of  my  father  and  mother  were  the  grandfather  and  grand- 
mother of  the  eminent  man  in  whose  honor  we  are  assembled 
to-day.  I  well  remember  the  frequent  visits  of  my  parents  to 
his  grandparents  more  than  sixty  years  ago.  As  a  little  boy,  I 
was  taken  to  Lawrenceville  on  those  fortnightly  visits,  and  I 
shall  never  forget  the  interesting  and  animated  conversations 
to  which  it  was  my  privilege  to  listen.  I  recall,  also,  the 
expressions  of  my  parents,  on  the  way  home,  of  admiration  of 
their  hosts,  and  particularly  for  the  talents  and  cultivation  of 


60  CONGRATULATORY  ADDRESSES 

their  hostess,  Mrs.  Green,  whose  memory  has  been  preserved 
with  filial  gratitude  by  her  descendants. 

It  is  a  notable  family;  and  they  are  mistaken  who  suppose 
that  the  princely  gifts  to  Princeton  of  one  of  this  family  is  the 
chief  cause  of  the  honor  in  which  the  name  of  Green  will  always 
be  held  at  Princeton.  I  can  speak  freely  of  those  great  and  good 
men — now  no  more — who  have  been  distinguished  judges  in 
this  State;  and  I  might  speak,  also,  of  those  of  the  family  still 
members  of  the  Board  which  I  represent,  who  are  ornaments  of 
the  bench  and  bar  of  New  Jersey. 

It  is  scarcely  necessary  for  me  to  express  the  sentiments  of 
the  Trustees  of  the  University  upon  this  happy  occasion.  I 
could  not  do  so  as  effectually  as  they  themselves  have  already 
done  in  a  time  that  is  past.  For,  upon  the  retirement  of  Dr. 
Maclean  from  the  Presidency  of  the  College,  they  unanimously 
elected  Dr.  William  Henry  Green  to  be  his  successor.  The 
Seminary  rejoices  that  he  felt  constrained  to  decline  the  offer  of 
this  high  position. 

Permit  me,  Dr.  Green,  to  express  to  you  the  admiration  of 
the  Trustees  of  the  University  of  your  great  learning  and  ability, 
which  have  added  lustre  to  the  Seminary  associated  with  the 
names  of  Miller  and  the  Hodges.  They  instruct  me  to  express 
their  wishes  and  prayers  that  you  may  long  be  spared  to  con- 
tinue to  be  the  pride  and  glory  of  the  venerable  Institution  in 
which  we  all  feel  so  great  an  interest. 


FROM    THE  OLD    TESTAMENT    REVISION    COM- 
MITTEE. 

BY    THE    REV.    PROFESSOR    HOWARD    OSGOOD,   D.D.,    LL.D.,   OF 
ROCHESTER   THEOLOGICAL   SEMINARY. 

Dr.  Green  was  always  the  Chairman  of  the  Old  Testament 
Revision  Committee.  It  was  composed  of  professors  drawn 
from  six  different  churches ;  men  of  positive  views  in  theology 
and  scholarship,  differing  widely  on  minor  points.  From  all 
those  thirteen  years  of  mutual  prayer  and  common  aim  there 


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remain  memories  that  are  sacred.  They  were  years  of  unceasing 
activity,  of  clashing  argument,  of  remorseless  voting.  Each 
member  in  turn,  including  our  revered  Chairman,  at  times  found 
himself  alone  in  his  view.  But  never  from  any  of  these  meet- 
ings did  a  member  bear  away  the  sting  of  a  single  discourteous 
word  or  suggestion. 

Across  the  wide  fields  of  scholarship,  over  the  paths  of 
unlimited  freedom  of  debate,  around  difficulties  that  threatened 
to  become  positive  obstructions,  our  Chairman  led  the  company 
safely  to  the  end  of  its  task. 

Every  member  would  gratefully  ascribe  a  large  part  of  that 
record  to  the  wise,  patient,  gentle  example  and  rule  of  our 
Chairman.  We  look  back  with  gratitude  to  the  years  spent  with 
Dr.  Green,  and  we  rejoice  with  you  in  this  celebration  of  his 
fifty  years  of  noble  service. 


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THE  "FATHER  OF  THE  MAN." 

BY   THE   REV.    WILLIAM   C.   CATTELL,    D.D.,    LL.D. 

If  there  be  truth  in  the  familiar  line  of  Wordsworth,  "  The 
child  is  father  of  the  man,"  our  reminiscences  to-day  should 
certainly  include  that  child  who  was  father  of  such  a  man  as 
Dr.  William  Henry  Green,  and  I  imagine  that  the  Committee 
of  Arrangements  assigned  this  subject  to  me  in  particular  be- 
cause as  the  senior  member  of  the  Seminary  Board  of  Direc- 
tors it  was  presumed  that,  among  all  my  colleagues,  my  memory 
would  reach  farthest  back  beyond  that  half-century  of  his  life 
which  we  are  here  met  to  celebrate.  This  may  be  so  ;  and  it  -is 
certainly  true  that,  as  the  programme  has  it,  I  was  "  Sometime 
President  of  Lafayette  College,"  upon  whose  roll  the  name  of 
William  Henry  Green  was  written  while  he  might  still  be  called 
a  child — for  he  was  barely  twelve  years  old  when  he  was  matric- 
ulated. It  would  not  be  inappropriate,  then,  to  expect  from 
me  something  with  regard  to  him  as  a  "  college  student."  For, 
although  I  was  not  connected  with  Lafayette  until  long  after 
he  was  graduated,  two  of  his  classmates  were  my  colleagues  in 
its  Board  of  Trustees  and  with  two  others  of  his  class  I  had  still 
more  intimate  associations  as  colleagues  in  the  faculty.  From 
them  and  others  of  his  fellow-students,  and  from  his  teachers 
also,  I  have  learned  at  first  hand  not  a  little  about  his  college 
days— much  more,  indeed,  than  I  can  tell  in  the  few  minutes 
allotted  to  my  speech. 

I  will  begin  with  one  thing  that  may  surprise  you.  Dr. 
Vanderveer,  an  old-time  teacher  of  great  ability,  and  for  some 
years  principal  of  the  preparatory  department  of  the  college, 
told  me  that  William  Henry  insistently  and  earnestly  begged  to 
be  excused  from  the  study  of  the  languages  on  the  ground  that 
he  had  no  aptitude  whatever  for  them.  Fortunately,  the  lad 
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listened  to  the  advice  of  his  revered  instructor,  and  went  on 
in  the  study  of  his  Latin  and  Greek,  developing  into  the  mar- 
vellous scholar  in  languages  whom  the  world  honors.  This 
incident  is  worth  passing  along  in  this  age,  when  optional  or 
elective  courses  of  study  are  so  abundantly  provided  for  college 
youth  on  the  supposition  that  they  best  know  what  their  own 
aptitudes  are. 

You  will  anticipate  me  when  I  say  that  from  the  beginning 
of  his  college  course  he  was  regarded  as  the  best  scholar  in  his 
class.  He  graduated  with  its  highest  honors  before  he  had 
reached  his  sixteenth  year.  One  of  his  classmates,  Colonel 
William  Dorris,  who  has  himself  made  a  distinguished  career, 
says :  "  In  pure  intellect  I  place  him  above  any  student  I  ever 
met.  He  was  perfect  in  mathematics  and  in  languages,  out- 
ranking us  all  in  a  pretty  strong  class."  My  honored  friend  has 
certainly  put  himself  under  some  restraint  in  speaking  so 
modestly  of  his  class.  It  was  more  than  "a  pretty  strong"  one. 
Although  small,  it  was  really  a  remarkable  class.  Of  the  eleven 
members  who  won  their  first  degree  nearly  all  became  eminent 
in  Church  or  State.  Emerson  has  said :  You  send  your  son 
to  the  schoolmaster,  but  it  is  the  boys  in  the  school  who  teach 
him.  It  can  be  well  understood  what  a  factor  in  the  develop- 
ment of  our  friend  was  his  daily  and  intimate  contact  with  class- 
mates of  such  brilliant  promise,  all  of  them  older  than  himself. 

But  there  were  eminent  teachers  in  the  faculty.  Among 
them,  and  facile princeps,  was  that  marvellous  man,  Dr.  George 
Junkin,  who  exerted  such  a  powerful  influence  on  the  whole 
college  community.  The  range  of  studies  at  Lafayette  in  those 
early  days,  as  well  as  the  small  number  of  students,  made  the 
contact  between  professor  and  student  close  and  frequent.  I 
need  not  remind  you  that  the  true  teacher  is  greater  than  his 
book,  and  his  personality  a  most  important  element  in  culture. 

The  young  collegian  was  remarkable  for  more  than  "  pure 
intellect."  The  traditions  of  the  elders  all  represent  him  as 
leading  a  blameless  and  winsome  life  among  his  fellows,  always 
prompt  and  conscientious  in  the  discharge  of  every  duty.  So 
much  did  I  hear  of  his  exemplary  deportment  that  I  often,  in  a 
bewildered  sort  of  way,  tried  to  imagine  what  a  life  I  should 


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be  leading  as  the  college  president,  had  all  the  students  been 
like  William  Henry  Green! 

I  must  emphasize  one  thing  about  his  fidelity.  He  was  not 
only  prompt  at  every  recitation,  but  he  never  missed  college 
prayers  in  the  chapel  at  five  o'clock  in  the  morning,  winter  and 
summer!  Dr.  Junkin,  a  Covenanter  Presbyterian  of  the  old 
Scotch  type,  was  brought  up  on  the  Psalms.  He  could  sing  with 
David,  "  I  myself  will  awake  right  early,"  and  he  did  not  fail  to 
wake  the  college  boys  right  early  that  they  might  sing  with 
him. 

But  William  Henry,  notwithstanding  his  perfect  recitations 
in  the  class-room,  does  not  seem  to  have  been  a  laborious 
student.  In  fact,  his  classmate,  from  whom  I  have  already 
quoted,  says :  "  We  used  to  play  chess  together;  he  was  fond  of 
the  game,  and  was  a  skilful  player.  But  I  don't  remember 
ever  having  seen  him  study;  he  seemed  to  take  in  every  task  as  if 
by  intuition."  Another  of  his  classmates,  Dr.  Porter,  now  and 
for  many  years  past  a  professor  at  Lafayette,  eminent  among  the 
scientists  of  the  age,  has  told  me  that  he  and  William  Henry  read 
together,  in  the  French  translation,  the  whole  of  Tasso's  "Jerusa- 
lem Delivered."  This  is  a  further  evidence  that  his  time  was  not 
wholly  taken  up  with  preparations  for  the  class-room,  and  also 
that  his  taste  and  aptitude  for  the  study  of  language  had  already 
developed.  And  there  is  a  tradition  at  Easton — in  fact,  I  heard 
it  again  recently  from  the  registrar  of  the  college  —  that  our 
young  friend  during  his  undergraduate  course  read  through  the 
entire  Hebrew  Bible.  This,  however,  is  one  of  the  traditions 
that  cannot  be  substantiated.  But  one  cannot  help  wishing  it 
were  really  true,  and  falls  to  wondering  what  would  have  been 
the  harvest  of  Semitic  literature  in  the  fifty  years  that  followed 
had  these  Hebrew  roots  been  indeed  planted  so  early  in  such 
congenial  soil. 

Most  of  us  know  Dr.  Green  only  as  the  learned  scholar,  the 
revered  instructor,  the  preacher  whose  sermons  have  been  to  us 
like  a  solemn  message  from  one  of  the  old  prophets.  This  very 
morning,  when  his  venerable  form  came  into  view,  as  he  descend- 
ed the  steps  of  this  platform  to  take  his  seat  in  the  presence  of 
the  vast  audience,  how  natural  it  was  for  us  all  to  rise  to  our  feet, 


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by  one  spontaneous  impulse,  and  stand  before  him  in  profound 
reverence!  It  is  hard  for  us  to  think  of  him  as  a  college  boy, 
such  as  he  is  recalled  by  the  surviving  members  of  his  class. 
One  of  them,  looking  back  to  those  early  days,  nearly  sixty  years 
ago,  sends  me  this  pleasing  picture  of  him  as  he  was  then  :  "  He 
was  a  sunny-faced,  bright-eyed  boy,  quiet,  diffident  and  unassum- 
ing in  manner,  always  in  a  good  humor."  We  can  readily  believe 
this;  and  can  well  understand  that,  while  his  intellectual  en- 
dowments and  his  pre-eminent  scholarship  commanded  the 
respect  of  his  fellow-students,  his  unassuming  manner,  his  sun- 
ny face,  his  gentleness,  and  unfailing  good  humor  won  their 
love. 

But  with  these  few  words  we  must  take  leave  of  the  child, 
who  was  "  Father  of  the  Man,"  whose  personality,  through  half 
a  century  of  distinguished  usefulness  and  honor,  is  to  be  pre- 
sented to  us  by  the  speakers  who  are  now  to  follow.  We  take 
leave  of  him  in  that  old-time  borough  of  Easton,  with  its  quiet, 
peaceful,  Christian  homes  of  half  a  century  ago,  and  in  the  blessed 
environment  of  a  college  founded  by  Christian  men  and  for 
Christian  culture.  There,  all  unconsciously  to  himself,  God  was 
preparing  him  for  the  illustrious  career  which  was  to  follow; 
and  there,  after  the  pattern  set  by  the  Divine  Teacher,  to 
whose  service  the  whole  life  of  our  friend  has  been  consecrated 
— be  it  said  reverently — "  The  child  grew  and  waxed  strong  in 
spirit ;  filled  with  wisdom  ;  and  the  grace  of  God  was  upon 
him." 


OUR   FELLOW-STUDENT. 

BY   THE    REV.    THEODORE    L.    CUVLER,  D.D. 

The  brother  who  prepared  this  programme  for  the  afternoon 
is  open  to  a  bit  of  "higher  criticism."  I  am  set  down  here  as 
the  "  fellow-student  "  of  the  honored  hero  of  the  day.  I  was 
more  than  that,  I  was  his  classmate,  and  closer,  even,  than  that, 
for  my  seat  was  next  to  him  in  the  farthest  corner  of  the  dear 
old  oratory.  And  I  only  regret  that  my  fellow-classmate  is  not 
here  now  that  I  might  look  in  his  eyes  and  say  something  to 


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him  out  of  the  fulness  of  my  heart;  so  I  shall  make  him  con- 
structively present. 

This  is  the  jubilee-day  of  all  the  surviving  members  of  the 
Class  of  1846.  To  our  class  belongs  the  honor  of  giving  two 
professors  to  Princeton  Theological  Seminary.  Both  names 
are  household  words  through  all  our  Presbyterian  realm.  One 
of  them  was  Archibald  Alexander  Hodge;  the  other  was 
William  Henry  Green. 

"Archie"  Hodge,  as  he  was  known  among  his  fellow  stu- 
dents, came  into  our  class  at  the  start — young,  shy,  unpretending, 
and  not  conspicuous;  in  fact,  we  had  a  sm't  of  compassion  on 
him  as  likely  to  be  smothered  under  the  combination  of  his 
two  great  names.  What  would  become  of  a  man  who  was 
Archibald  Alexander  and  Hodge  rolled  into  one?  He  did  not 
display,  until  he  went  out  to  his  field  of  labor  at  Fredericks- 
burg and  Wilkes  Barre,  his  unique  and  truly  splendid  gifts. 
Then  we  discovered  that  the  name  was  well  given  to  him  and 
was  a  prophecy. 

William  Henry  Green  came  into  our  class  at  the  beginning 
of  the  third  year,  from  Lafayette  College,  where  he  had  been  and 
where  he  had  struggled  after  higher  mathematics.  Tall,  very 
modest,  manly,  twenty  years  old  by  the  almanac,  he  had  at- 
tained a  most  remarkable  maturity.  He  leaped  at  once  to  the 
front,  the  foremost  scholar  of  the  class,  the  foremost  scholar 
in  the  Seminary.  He  took  to  Greek  as  if  he  had  been  born  at 
Athens;  he  took  to  Hebrew  as  if  he  had  been  the  son  of  a 
rabbi  in  Jerusalem.  He  seemed  to  us  not  so  much  as  a  stu- 
dent, but  as  an  incipient  professor;  and  so  it  was  the  most  natu- 
ral thing  in  the  world  that  he  stepped  at  once  from  the  bench  of 
the  pupil  to  the  chair  of  the  instructor. 

With  what  immense  industry,  and  consecrated  devotion,  and 
superb  wealth  of  scholarship  he  has  adorned  that  chair  for  fifty 
years  the  whole  Christian  world  knows  full  well — aye,  and  some 
of  the  foes  of  sound  Biblical  scholarship  know  it  to  their  sorrow. 
Our  class  to-day,  the  few  that  are  surviving,  are  ready  to  reach 
up  the  greenest  laurel  we  could  gather  to  crown  his  honored 
head,  and  say  to  him  :  "  Many  of  our  class  have  done  virtuously, 
but  thou  hast  excelled  us  all." 


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One  secret  of  the  power  and  perennial  influence  of  Professor 
Hodge  and  Professor  Green  is  that  they  were  always  true  to 
the  Princeton  idea.  Now,  the  Princeton  idea  in  theology  is 
not  to  invent,  but  to  discover;  to  be  always  discovering  what 
Almighty  God  has  revealed  to  His  people,  and  then  to  send  out 
an  army  of  young  men  to  proclaim  that  divine  revelation. 

This  idea  was  happily  illustrated  by  Archibald  Hodge  when 
he  was  once  a  guest  at  my  table  in  company  with  a  graduate  of 
Yale  Theological  Seminary.  The  Yale  man  was  inclined  to 
make  game  of  Princeton  as  rather  fossilized.  Brother  "  Archie," 
in  his  quaint,  characteristic  way,  said  to  him,  "  The  trouble 
with  you  Yale  theological  professors  is  that  you  only  teach  your 
student  to  think.  Thinking  sent  Adam  out  of  Paradise.  In 
Princeton  we  let  God  do  the  thinking,  and  teach  the  students 
to  believe."  And  it  is  just  because  the  dear  old  Seminary  has 
always  maintained  that  listening,  reverent  attitude  toward 
Jehovah  that  it  has  maintained  its  commanding  influence  in  the 
land  and  throughout  all  the  world  as  the  great,  impregnable 
stronghold  of  sound  Biblical  theology.  One  of  the  contro- 
verted questions  of  the  day  is,  has  the  Church  of  God  got  any 
Bible  ?  Princeton  thunders  back,  "  She  has  !  "  "She  has  !  " 
And  we  stand  by  it  from  the  Genesis  clear  through  to  the  last 
hallelujah  of  the  Apocalypse. 

The  great  thing  about  William  Henry  Green — the  grandest 
thing  about  him,  is  not  his  intellectual  acumen  or  his  massive 
erudition ;  it  is  the  beautiful  combination  of  docility  and  cour- 
age that  has  distinguished  all  his  career.  He  has  sat  at  the  feet 
of  the  Infinite  Wisdom  with  the  teachable  spirit  of  a  little  child  ; 
he  has  risen  up  from  that  position  to  contend  with  the  splendid 
prowess  of  a  Paladin. 

To-day  a  few  of  his  surviving  classmates  of  1846,  the  few 
of  them  that  are  left — our  heads  whitening  with  the  frosts  that 
never  melt — gather  to  join  in  his  coronation.  Reminiscences 
are  too  sacred  to  me  for  jest.  I  have  none  to  give  you.  To-day 
he,  with  two  or  three  of  us,  looks  back  through  the  vista  of  fifty 
years  to  the  days  of  "Auld  Lang  Syne."  The  veil  lifts;  we 
are  again  in  the  dear  old  oratory,  plain  and  Presbyterian  in  its 
aspect,  with  the  countenance  of  John  Calvin  looking  down  on  us 


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from  the  walls.  Archibald  Alexander,  clad  in  his  old  blue 
cloak,  enters  and  mounts  the  rostrum.  Beside  him  is  the  ven- 
erable white  head  of  Samuel  Miller,  and  on  the  other  side  are 
the  ruddy  cheeks  and  Napoleon-like  head  of  that  marvel  of 
many-sided  genius,  Joseph  Addison  Alexander.  Charles  Hodge 
comes  in,  limping  and  leaning  on  his  cane. 

We  look  back  to-day  and  gaze  at  that  wonderful — most 
wonderful — group  through  eyes  welling  out  with  tears  ;  and  here 
we  see,  at  the  end  of  half  a  century,  thanks  be  to  God,  that  the 
teachings  of  these  glorious  men  are  still  taught  here;  that  the 
methods  pursued  here  fifty  years  ago  are  pursued  here  still  ; 
and  that  the  tides  of  innovation  and  revolution,  that  have  swept 
away  many  men  and  institutions,  have  swept  by  and  left 
unharmed  the  immovable  adamant  of  Princeton  Seminary. 
Stand  fast,  stand  fast,  Crag  Ellachie! 

William  Henry  Green,  illustrious  and  beloved  classmate,  to 
you,  more  than  to  any  other  living  man,  Princeton  has  en- 
trusted her  standard  of  purity,  truth,  and  unwavering  loyalty  to 
the  sacred  Word.  Right  gallantly  hast  thou  borne  it  aloft  in 
many  a  hard  conflict. 

At  the  close  of  the  day  of  Agincourt,  King  Henry  rode  over 
the  field  and  came  upon  a  standard-bearer  bleeding  to  death, 
the  standard  still  grasped  in  his  hand.  The  king  knighted  him 
on  the  spot.  And  when  the  last  hour  comes  for  our  beloved 
friend — and  distant,  far  distant,  be  the  hour  when  it  shall  come 
— he  will  be  found  lying  on  the  battlefield  for  Christ,  holding 
the  snow-white  standard  of  Princeton  in  his  hand  ;  and  the 
King  of  Kings  will  crown  him  with  glory  and  honor. 


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THE  YOUNG   PROFESSOR. 

BY   THE   REV.    A.    A.    E.    TAYLOR,    D.D.,    LL.D. 

The  students  of  Professor  Green  are  scattered  throughout 
the  known  world.  Probably  the  great  majority  of  them  in  this 
land  are  distributed  to  the  West. 

It  was  a  critical  period  in  the  history  of  the  Seminary,  then 
nearing  its  fortieth  year,  when,  at  the  age  of  twenty-six,  Mr. 
William  Henry  Green  assumed  his  professorship.  The  first 
group  of  great  teachers  was  rapidly  passing.  In  the  previous 
year  the  stately  and  elegant  Dr.  Samuel  Miller  had  fallen 
asleep,  and  his  chair  remained  unfilled.  The  classical  and 
courteous  James  W.  Alexander  had  returned  to  his  New  York 
pastorate,  his  place  being  still  vacant.  The  venerable  Ar- 
chibald Alexander  finished  his  course  a  few  weeks  after  the 
young  professor  took  up  his  task.  Only  two  professors  were 
left  standing  beside  him.  They  were  Charles  Hodge,  just 
mounting  to  the  meridian  of  his  strength  in  Greek  Exegesis 
and  Didactic  Theology,  and  Addison  Alexander,  resigning  to 
the  new  professor  Biblical  and  Oriental  Literature,  to  enter 
upon  his  brilliant  and  diversified  course  in  Biblical  and  Eccle- 
siastical History.  To  succeed  Addison  Alexander,  to  parallel 
the  Greek  exegesis  of  Charles  Hodge  with  his  Hebrew  work, 
and  to  stand  alone  with  these  two  experienced  co-professors, 
for  the  time  at  least,  was  the  difficult  position  assigned  to  him. 
The  Seminary  was  feeling  the  shock  of  its  broken  faculty.  The 
number  of  entrants  for  the  new  year  was  42  as  against  65  for 
the  previous  year  and  55  of  the  year  before  that.  Also  the 
funds  were  at  a  discouraging  ebb.  There  were  likewise  some 
difficult  students  for  a  young  teacher  to  tackle,  such  as  Robert 
Watts,  James  P.  Boyce,  of  South  Carolina,  Caspar  Wistar 
Hodge,  and  Isadore  Hoewenthal,  the  learned  Jewish  convert 
and  Hebraist. 

Besides,  the  fame  of  the  Princeton  professorial  pulpit  for 
spiritual  unction  and  eloquence  was  at  its  height,  and  must  be 
maintained  on  a  level  with  the  grade  of  Drs.  Miller,  the  three 


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Alexanders,  Charles  Hodge,  and  the  famous  College  presidents. 
These  men  and  their  compeers  were  also  reaching  a  high  mark 
of  scholarship  and  literary  culture  in  the  Prijiceton  Review. 
Well  may  the  junior  professor  have  trembled  in  his  shoes  at  the 
prospect.  Yet,  however  much  he  may  have  shrunk  from  the 
weighty  responsibilities  confronting  him,  he  did  his  trembling 
in  private.  To  all  outward  appearance  William  Henry  Green 
was  as  self-poised  a  professor  as  he  is  to-day  the  first  time  he 
sat  down  behind  his  desk  in  the  class-room,  or  the  hour  he 
took  his  place  beside  his  spectacled  colleagues  in  the  oratory 
at  the  Sabbath  afternoon  conference.  Dignified,  self-possessed, 
firm,  with  a  modest  embarrassment  of  manner  held  under 
control  by  the  courage  of  a  conscious  call  of  duty,  and  a  certain 
confidence  of  one  who  knows  that  he  is  loaded  for  action,  he 
assumed  his  position  as  though  he  were  to  the  manner  born. 

Your  speaker  was  a  sprightly  sophomore  of  seventeen  in 
the  College  when  Mr.  Green  returned  to  Princeton  as  pro- 
fessor. Being  thrown  closely  by  association  in  the  social  circles 
of  the  younger  members  of  the  families  of  the  two  faculties, 
he  had  heard  much  of  the  exalted  pulpit  reputation  of  the 
young  professor,  who  had  supplied  the  newly  organized  Second 
Church  during  a  part  of  the  time  while  he  had  served  as  in- 
structor. When  young  Charlie  Hodge  first  pointed  him  out 
«m  the  Seminary  grounds  he  was  not  playing  hand-ball  or  foot- 
ball. He  was  making  a  bee-line,  with  rapid  strides,  from  his 
lecture-room  to  his  study.  That  bee-line  is  one  characteristic 
secret  of  Professor  Green's  pre-eminent  scholarship  and  present 
position.  That  tall,  solemn,  somewhat  angular  form,  marked 
in  every  movement  by  intensity  of  purpose  and  directness  of 
action,  was  never  seen  to  loiter  or  dally,  and  was  not  anxious 
for  wayside  interview  or  the  let-down  of  companion  gossip  en 
route.  "  I  must  be  about  my  Father's  business  "  seemed  to  fill 
the  environing  atmosphere. 

Three  years  later  your  speaker  entered  the  Seminary  and 
came  under  the  direct  personal  influence  of  Professor  Green. 
There  are  three  points  of  view  from  which  we  may  observe  the 
young  professor  in  a  general  way,  being  restricted  by  what  is 
due  to  his  presence  here.     They  are  the  professor  in  the  chair, 


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outside  the  class-room,  and  in  the  pulpit.  As  a  grammatical 
trainer  Professor  Green  was  already  working  up  that  condensed 
and  orderly  systemization  that  simplified  the  study  and  clarified 
the  vision  of  paradigms  and  roots,  in  preparation  for  his  own 
excellent  grammatical  works;  and  his  classes  received  the 
benefit  of  his  labors.  The  course  in  hermaneutics  and  correla- 
tive branches  was  not  a  popular  one  with  most  of  the  students, 
who  were  eagerly  looking  forward  to  practical  field-work.  But 
the  lectures  of  Professor  Green  were  always  deeply  instructive 
and  attractive.  So  far  as  he  dwelt  on  "  Introduction  "  his  aim 
seemed  to  be  not  so  much  criticism,  or  apologetics,  as  to  initiate 
the  student  into  a  living,  working  knowledge  of  the  Word  of 
God.  His  presentation  of  differing  opinions  seemed  fair  and 
unprejudiced,  as  though  calmly  estimated  from  the  highest 
standpoints  of  sober  historical  criticism.  While,  to  quote  the 
familiar  phrasing  of  good  Dr.  McGill,  he  did  not  set  us  to 
"  toil  on  the  treadmill  of  a  barren  dialectic,"  yet  neither  did  he 
overwhelm  us  with  technical  learning  beyond  our  apprehension. 
Professor  Green  was  not  afflicted  with  the  popular  Germanic 
"  mania  for  hypothesis."  By  some  critics  he  may  have  been 
supposed  to  have  lacked  a  strictly  historical  and  scientific 
speculative  imagination,  that  out  of  the  head  of  an  Assyrian 
bull  could  construct  a  whole  Pantheon  of  Assyriology,  or  that 
could  detect  a  score  of  authors  in  the  Pentateuch  documents. 

But  he  possessed  the  logical,  constructive  faculty  that  could 
build  solidly  where  it  could  find  adequate  building  material 
and  firm  ground  to  build  upon.  His  conservatism  has  proved 
Professor  Green's  strength  and  the  basis  of  unsurpassed  public 
confidence.  Dr.  Addison  Alexander  had  long  been  the  ad- 
miration of  the  Seminary  classes  as  the  prodigious  scholar  and 
the  prince  of  teachers.  Direct  as  a  shot,  clean-cut,  incisive, 
clear  as  a  bell,  he  was  impatient  with  ignorance  and  utterly 
intolerant  of  stupidity.  He  despised  an  idler  or  a  dolt,  and 
sometimes  was  justly  severe  and  exacting  to  the  recreant, 
though  ever  patient  and  helpful  to  those  who  proved  in  earnest. 
Between  him  and  the  mild,  helpful,  and  suggestive  Hodge 
Professor  Green  drew  a  middle  line  as  a  teacher.  And  the 
students   thought    that    in    his    somewhat   stern,    pointed,  and 


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searching  way  he  proved  as  stimulating  to  study  and  pressed  as 
much  w&ork  out  of  his  classes  as  did  his  older  colleagues. 
Many  of  the  students  were  overawed  by  the  calm  dignity  of 
good  Dr.  Hodge  and  were  positively  afraid  of  Addison  Alex- 
ander, to  whom  they  seemed  to  impart  their  own  timidity  and 
nervous  embarrassment  in  their  approaches.  But  the  youth 
and  friendly  reception  of  the  young  professor,  despite  a  certain 
reticent  and  reserved  manner,  drew  the  students  in  nearer  con- 
fidence  after  they  had  once  become  acquainted  with  him. 

Out    of  the  class-room   Professor  Green  was  friendly  and 
companionable,  though    forbidding  familiarity  and  not  overly 
aiven  to  small  talk  or  discussion  of  the  commonplace.     His 
sense   of    humor    was    perhaps    somewhat    repressed    and  dis- 
covered itself  through  a  sometime  sombre  covering  in  a  quiet, 
lurking  smile  of  appreciation.     He  did  not  keep  bound  volumes 
of   the    London    Punch    in  his  library,  for  his  refreshment,  as 
did   Addison    Alexander.     One    incident    may    illustrate:    At 
the    reception    given    by    Professor   Green  to   our   class    upon 
graduation,  Henry  Carrington  Alexander  and  myself  were  stand- 
ing near,  when  a  classmate  approached  whose  capacity  for  en- 
joying a  joke  was  superior  to  his  ability  of  framing  one.     He 
jocosely  remarked  to   Dr.  Green,  as  he  saluted,  that   the  pro- 
fessor  seemed    to   be    " quiescing    in    Hholem."     "What   did 
you   remark,  sir?"     "I   merely  observed,  professor,  that  you 
were  'quiescing  in  Hholem.'"     "Excuse  me,  I  do  not  under- 
stand you,"  replied   the  mystified  professor.     Then  followed   a 
labored  explanation  of  vav  and  quiescents  in    Hholem,  with 
the  figurative  sense  and  practical  application,  ending  with  the 
statement  that    he    only  meant  that  the  professor  was  stand- 
in-  absorbed  in  silence.     The  quiet  remark  that  followed,  ac- 
companied by  a  twinkle  of  the   eye,  "  Yes,  sir,  I  understand 
now;    it's   a   pleasant    evening,"   proved    the    utter   discomfit- 
ure  of    the    adventurous   humorist,    and  was    more    than    the 
observers  could  endure,  who  were  soon  rolling,  convulsed  with 
laughter,  on  the  lawn  outside.     The  rash  temerity  of  address- 
ing Dr.  Green  with  a  Hebrew  grammatical  joke  was  too  ab- 
surdly ludicrous  to  endure.     And  yet  no  kinder  or  more  tender 
spirit,  nor  one  more  helpful  or  ready  to  relieve  a  student  in 


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his  perplexities,  ever  sat  in  a  professor's  study.  The  watch- 
ful interest  with  which  his  students  have  ever  been  followed 
by  him  in  their  ministry  gives  proof  of  this  statement. 

Absolutely  no  time  is  left  to  speak  of  the  original  and 
instructive  content  and  fascinating,  progressive  style  of  the 
pulpit  efforts  of  Professor  Green,  whose  later  preaching  is  but 
the  ripening  and  out-bloom  of  the  stately  dignity,  the  rapid 
utterance,  the  intense  sincerity  of  mood  and  manner,  and  the 
exhaustive  study  of  his  earlier  ministrations.  It  is  estimated 
that  not  less  than  3,000  students  have  sat  at  Dr.  Green's  feet. 
His  students  who  enjoyed  the  dew  of  his  youth  rejoice  to-day 
to  rise  up  with  their  successors,  even  of  these  latest  years,  to 
invoke  upon  their  beloved  professor  the  supreme  blessing  of 
the  great  Teacher  of  us  all. 


THE   ESTABLISHED    TEACHER. 

BY   THE   REV.    EDWARD   R.    GRIFFIN,    D.D.,    LL.D. 

The  faculty  of  theology  in  a  well-known  institution  are 
said  to  have  abandoned,  a  few  years  since,  the  Latin  thesis  as 
a  condition  of  graduation  because  of  the  extraordinary  vagaries, 
both  of  Latinity  and  of  doctrine,  to  which  it  gave  occasion. 
One  promising  candidate,  for  example,  maintained  two  propo- 
sitions :  First,  there  is  a  moral  government  of  the  world  ;  second, 
there  is  a  way  of  escape  from  it.  I  have  not  been  so  long 
absent  from  Princeton  as  to  be  in  danger  of  any  aberration  so 
startling  as  this,  yet  I  am  glad  to  be  assigned  to  a  simpler  duty 
than  that  so  well  performed  by  the  speakers  of  the  morning. 
It  is  a  most  welcome  pleasure  to  be  permitted  to  say  a  few 
words,  not  of  historical  review  or  of  critical  estimate,  but  of 
immediate  personal  feeling,  and  to  know  that  I  speak  not 
merely  for  myself,  but  as  the  representative  of  all  the  men  of 
my  time.  I  cannot  affirm  too  earnestly  in  behalf  of  the  classes 
with  which  I  am  most  familiar — those  of  the  decade  from  i860 
to  1870 — our  concurrence  in  every  word  of  honor,  gratitude,  and 
affection   that    has  been  spoken    to-day.     Many   of    us  count 


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it  one  of  the  chief  privileges  and  blessings  of  our  lives  that 
we  have  been  pupils  of  Dr.  Green  ;  our  hearts  acknowledge  an 
obligation  the  extent  of  which  we  cannot  estimate. 

Every  student  of  the  Seminary  during  those  years  will 
testify  to  the  commanding  influence  exerted  by  the  Professor  of 
Oriental  and  Old  Testament  Literature.  I  have  often  recalled, 
as  an  admirable  example  of  power  on  the  part  of  a  teacher,  the 
spirit  which  prevailed  in  his  class-room.  The  subjects  which 
he  taught  naturally  made  greater  demands  upon  time  and 
labor  than  were  made  by  most  other  subjects,  yet  it  was  not 
the  demands  of  the  subject,  but  the  characteristics  of  the  man, 
which  accounted  for  the  high  standard  of  fidelity  to  which 
nearly  every  one  adhered.  1  well  remember  the  assiduous  con- 
scientiousness with  which  the  daily  tasks  were  performed. 
Some  of  the  students  had  never  been  before  under  so  exacting 
a  discipline  ;  for  my  own  part,  I  know  that — little  as  Dr. 
Green  can  have  suspected  it — I  never  worked  so  hard  for  any 
teacher.  The  recollection  of  what  he  accomplished  through 
the  simple  weight  and  insistence  of  his  personality  has  always 
been  instructive  to  me.  I  do  not  remember  that  he  ever 
addressed  a  word  to  us  in  the  way  of  exhortation  or  of  reproof, 
but  the  dullest,  most  unimpressible  person  could  not  withstand 
the  contagion  of  his  example,  the  strenuous  earnestness  of  his 
nature.  It  is  a  great  mistake  to  suppose  that  a  teacher  wins 
the  permanent  regard  of  his  pupils  by  indulgent  and  easy-going 
methods,  by  expecting  little  of  them,  by  being  over-solicitous 
to  smooth  away  all  difficulties.  We  yield  our  gratitude  and 
admiration  to  those  who  have  incited  us  to  arduous  tasks, 
which  tax  our  powers,  discover  to  us  our  resources,  and  inspire 
us  with  new  motives  and  aspirations. 

In  the  life  of  Charles  Hodge  there  is  an  anecdote — which 
may  be  too  familiar  for  citation  here — of  one  of  the  early  in- 
structors in  Princeton  College,  who  was  accustomed  to  say  to 
his  pupils  :  "Gentlemen,  you  will  find  the  best  preparation  for 
death  to  be  a  really  thorough  knowledge  of  Greek  grammar." 
This  sense  of  the  ethical  and  spiritual  value  of  earnest  intel- 
lectual work,  and  especially  an  intense  sense  of  the  obligation 
incumbent  upon  a  student  of  theology  to  pursue  his  studies  in 


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a  religious  spirit,  and  as  a  means  of  religious  growth,  was  so 
characteristic  of  Dr.  Green  that  it  expressed  itself  in  his  whole 
bearing.  His  high  and  serious  temper  rebuked  indolence,  fri- 
volity, and  unconscientiousness,  and  made  it  impossible  for  the 
most  careless  of  his  pupils  to  forget  the  great  purposes  which 
they  ought  to  hold  supreme.  He  was  able  to  bring  us  to  look 
upon  the  routine  of  work  as  a  means  of  grace  and  a  test  of 
character,  and  this  rendered  his  instruction  not  merely  reveren- 
tial, but  spiritually  edifying  and  quickening. 

One  trait  in  Dr.  Green,  which  we  all  recognized,  was  his  sense 
of  justice,  his  fairness,  candor,  and  sincerity.  As  the  part  which 
he  has  taken  in  the  controversies  of  the  last  thirty-five  years  has 
been  described  to-day,  I  have  recalled  with  satisfaction  the  fact 
that  he  impressed  us  in  this  way.  If  any  man  needs  to  be  trans- 
parently honest,  to  be  above  the  suspicion  of  evasion  or  con- 
cealment, to  be  incapable  of  taking  an  unfair  advantage,  it  is 
he  who  engages  in  the  discussion  of  questions  which  affect  the 
most  cherished  beliefs  and  the  most  sacred  experiences  of  man- 
kind. It  is  most  unseemly  and  discreditable  to  import  into 
such  high  debate  anything  of  artifice  or  subterfuge,  any  tricks 
of  rhetoric  or  of  dialectic.  Every  pupil  of  Dr.  Green  knows 
that  the  moral  qualifications  which  ought  to  be  found  in  a  theo- 
logical disputant  are  his  in  an  eminent  degree,  that  it  would  be 
impossible  for  him  to  say  anything  that  he  does  not  believe,  or 
to  conceal  anything  that  he  does  believe,  or  to  use  any  argu- 
ment of  the  soundness  of  which  he  is  not  convinced.  We  well 
know  that  in  all  that  he  has  said  and  written  he  has  sought  only 
truth.  The  cause  which  he  has  maintained  has  had  in  him  a 
champion  without  fear  and  without  reproach.  Of  him  it  may 
be  said  :  "  His  means  are  fair  and  spotless  as  his  ends." 

An  occasion  like  this  is  highly  suggestive  and  strongly 
admonitory  to  those  who  are  concerned  in  the  administration 
of  institutions  of  education.  Mr.  Rashdall,  in  his  learned  study 
of  the  universities  of  Europe  in  the  Middle  Ages,  lately  pub- 
lished, gives  an  interesting  account  of  the  way  in  which  the 
earliest  of  these  foundations  arose,  without  premeditation  or 
authorization,  as  it  were  by  accident,  under  the  influence  of 
attractive  and  distinguished  teachers,  and  describes  how,  in  due 


AFTER-DINNER   SPEECHES  79 

time,  the  period  of  organization  set  in,  of  charters  and  statutes, 
and  faculties  and  curricula,  the  personal  period  being  succeeded 
by  the    institutional.     We  are  witnessing  in  our  day  a  some- 
what similar  transition.     Our  colleges  and  schools  of    profes- 
sional learning  may  be  said  to  have  been,  until  within  a  com- 
paratively recent  time,  in   the  personal  stage  ;  their  equipment 
was  meagre  and  their  efficiency  was  obviously  dependent  upon 
the  qualities  of  individuals.     The  immense  material  expansion 
of  the  past  few  years,  bringing  with  it  an  enormous  augmenta- 
tion of  the  institutional  element,  involves  the  danger  that  we 
may  come  to  put  undue  stress  upon  what  is  external  and  instru- 
mental—costly buildings,  extensive  libraries,  imposing  lists  of 
instructors— forgetting  that  an  educational  institution  is  great 
only  in  the  learning,  the  genius,  the  personal  force  of  the  men 
who  constitute  its  teaching    body.        Princeton    Seminary   has 
been  fortunate    in    having   had  among   its  teachers  men  of  rare 
and  special  gifts,  who  have  transmitted  their  influence  through 
successive  generations  of    students,   and    have    thus   created    a 
genius  loci,  which,  in  the  words  of  Cardinal  Newman,  "haunts 
the  home  where  it  has  been  born,  and   imbues  and  forms,  more 
or  less  and  one   by  one,  every  individual  who  is  successively 
brought  under  its  shadow."      It  is  this   "self-perpetuating  tra- 
dition "   which    constitutes   the  distinctive  character,  the    true 
reality  and  identity  of  an  institution  of  learning.     Why  is  it  that 
men  come  back  here  after  an  interval  of  years  and  feel  them- 
selves at  home,  old  associations  remaining  undisturbed  in  spite 
of  the  changes  of  time?     It  is  because  of  the  survival  in  the 
life  of  the  present  of  influences  derived  from  the  master  spirits 
of  the  past.     The  chief  concern  of  those  who  control  the  affairs 
of  our  universities  and  colleges  and  professional  schools  ought 
to  be  to  see  to  it  that  men  are  secured  for  the  leading  chairs 
of  instruction,  who  are  not  only  competent  in  point  of  knowl- 
edge, but  are  capable  of  impressing  themselves  in  effective,  dis- 
tinctive, and  vital  ways  upon  the  minds  and  characters  of  those 
under  their  care.     The  memorable  and  delightful  scene  which 
we   have  witnessed  to-day — this   unanimous  and    spontaneous 
outpouring  of  loyal  and  grateful  respect  and  affection— shows 
what  can  be  accomplished  by  a  great  and  good  man  working, 


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during  a  long  series  of  years,  in  a  professor's  chair.     The  lesson 
deserves  to  be  deeply  pondered. 

In  the  name  of  my  contemporaries  in  the  Seminary,  I  extend 
to  our  honored  and  beloved  master  most  hearty  congratulations 
and  assurances  of  our  loving  remembrance.  May  the  succes- 
sion of  men  such  as  he  never  fail  in  this  place. 


THE    LEARNED     DOCTOR. 

BY   THE   REV.   JOHN    FOX,    D.D. 

The  form  of  this  theme  suggests  some  inferences,  which  it 
may  be  unwise  to  press.  "  The  Learned  Doctor," — are  there 
any  doctors  who  are  unlearned  ?  In  the  Pantheon  of  heathen 
divinities  there  be  gods  many  and  lords  many,  according  to 
St.  Paul,  ranks  and  degrees  of  eminence.  So  in  the  Pantheon 
of  Christian  doctors  of  divinity,  there  are  reverends  and 
right  reverends,  D.D.'s,  LL.D.'s,  and  Litt.  D.'s— granting  that 
none  are,  as  Rosalind  says  in  "As  You  Like  It,"  "lacking  the 
burden  of  lean  and  wasteful  learning."  Still  there  are  dif- 
ferences, one  star  differing  from  another  star  in  glory  ;  and 
in  the  blaze  of  such  a  luminary  as  fills  the  firmament  of 
learning  to-day  many  of  us  would  be  glad  to  hide  our  dimin- 
ished heads  in  his  brightness  or  borrow  some  of  his  glory  to 
shine  in. 

I  have  been  chosen  to  speak  to-day  to  represent  in  some 
measure  the  classes  who  graduated  here  twenty  years  ago,  and  I 
think  that  Dr.  Cuyler  in  his  turn  must  submit  to  a  little  higher 
criticism  of  his  speech.  He  is  justly  proud  of  the  fact  that 
the  Class  of  1846  gave  the  Seminary  two  great  professors,  but 
he  is  mistaken  in  supposing  that  no  other  class  has  done  so. 
The  Class  of  1876  has  added  two  others,  of  whom  we  are  in  no- 
wise ashamed,  Benjamin  B.  Warfield  and  George  T.  Purves, 
worthy  pupils  of  our  worthy  grand  master,  whose  Lobgesang 
we  all  rejoice  to  sing  to-day. 

The  sharpest  and  most  abiding  impression  made  by  Dr. 
Green  upon  the  average  student  entering  Princeton  Seminary 


AFTER-DINNER  SPEECHES  81 

twenty  or  more  years  ago  was  that  he  was  the  very  incarnation 
and  embodiment  of  sacred  learning — using  those  words  in  their 
fullest  and  richest  sense.  Other  learning  we  had  known,  com- 
ing up  from  the  feet  of  other  masters  in  academic  institutions. 
He  taught  us  to  feel  anew  the  sacredness  of  all  true  learning : 
and  he  ushered  us  into  a  new  realm,  which  seemed  sacred  in  it- 
self and  the  more  because  some  of  the  sanctity  of  his  own  char- 
acter was  imparted  to  it.  It  is  hard,  indeed,  to  distinguish  now 
just  what  our  first  impressions  were  as  we  look  back  at  them 
from  twenty  years  and  more.  They  are  blended  with  later 
knowledge — and  especially  with  the  multitudinous  impressions 
of  to-day.  These  seem,  however,  only  to  bring  out  more  dis- 
tinctly the  first  feelings,  and  it  is  pleasant  now  to  know  that 
what  we  felt  in  impressionable  youth  may  be  cherished  still  as 
the  more  discriminating  judgments  of  later  manhood.  Stand- 
ing to-day  in  the  very  thick  of  the  conflict,  face  to  face  with 
men  in  the  thronging  rush  of  modern  life,  trying  to  stem  the 
torrent  of  doubt  and  unbelief,  it  is  something  to  be  able  to  know 
that  we  were  taught  by  such  a  master,  and  to  feel  as  those  felt 
who  could  say,  "  I  have  sat  at  the  feet  of  Gamaliel."  It  is  sat- 
isfactory to  hear  not  only  this  chorus  of  praise  to-day  from  his 
friends  but  to  know  that  even  in  the  camp  of  the  Philistines  his 
prowess  and  pre-eminent  scholarship  are  recognized.  Speaking 
some  time  ago  with  a  man  known  for  his  pronounced  antago- 
nism to  all  supernatural  religion,  but  of  high  repute  as  a  man  of 
letters,  thoroughly  appreciative  of  the  Bible  as  literature,  though 
not  as  dogma,  I  referred  to  a  scholar  widely  known  as  an  Ori- 
entalist, but  not  to  be  classed  with  Dr.  Green  as  a  thorough- 
going conservative,  and  he  exclaimed,  with  somewhat  of 
impatience,  at  a  man  who  would  concede  so  much  against 
traditional  views  and  still  draw  back  from  the  next  step.  Then 
I  mentioned  Dr.  Green.  "What,  W.  H.  Green,  of  Princeton?" 
he  said;  "  anything  he  says  is  entitled  to  respectful  hearing,"  or 
some  similar  phrase.  If  I  remember,  Dr.  Patton  long  ago  in 
the  Presbyterian  Review  used  this  phrase,  "  that  the  Presby- 
terian Church  must  not  go  into  the  Pentateuchal  discussion  as 
the  advocate  of  a  foregone  conclusion."  Dr.  Green's  conclu- 
sions are  formed  on  solid  evidence,  out  of  a  pure  heart  and  with 
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82  AFTER-DINNER  SPEECHES 

good   conscience,  and    they  compel    homage    even    from    the 
enemy. 

These  things  have  been  gone  over  fully  to-day,  and  I  may, 
therefore,  in  this  reminiscence  meeting  try  to  bring  back  a  little 
more  the  impressions  made  upon  us  by  this  learned  and  devout 
doctor  of  the  law,  an  Israelite,   indeed,  in   whom   is  no  guile. 
Semitic   learning  seems  like  a  new  world  to  the  average  col- 
legian—for whom   I  may  speak— coming  up  to  this  school   of 
the  prophets  with   his  modicum  of    Latin   and   Greek— little 
Latin  and  less  Greek,  too  often.     It  has  been  said  to  learn  any 
new  language  is  to  add  a  new  world  to  our  knowledge,  and  cer- 
tainly it   is  so  with   Hebrew.     I   remember  talking  with   Dr. 
Purves  (who  was  not  a  doctor  then)  in  the  old  Seminary,  soon 
after  we  came,  and  his  speculating   "  how  long  it  would  take  a 
fellow  to   learn  to  write  a  letter  home  in  this  language."     Its 
strange  characters,  its  crab-like  progression,  whereby  one  feels  as 
if  backing  water  across  the  page,  are  confusing  to  the  beginner. 
Still  more  so  is  that  peculiar  motion  by  which  one  must  weave  the 
vowels  from  beneath  into  the  consonantal  framework  above- 
one  is  so  apt  to  drop  a  stitch.     Dr.  Green's  mode  of  instruction 
made  little  provision  for  dropping  stitches.     It  is  hardly  telling 
tales  out  of  school  to  say— probably  he  knows  it  himself— that 
he  was  often  called  "  Rabbi,"  and  some  even  dared  to  speak  of 
him  as  "  Sinai."     Not  that  he  was  harsh  or  unkind,  but  he  was 
strict.       The  law  was  our  schoolmaster.      There  was  often  a 
prevailing  sense  of  shortcoming.    We  felt  that  in  many  Points 
— we  offend  all. 

Since  Dr.  Patton  this  morning  confessed  his  sin  of  ignorance 
of  Hebrew  I  am  moved  to  take  refuge  in  his  company  and  cry, 
mea  culpa.  Perhaps  there  are  others  in  like  case.  Would  it 
not  be  a  good,  practical  outcome  of  to-day's  Jubilee  for  us  at 
least  to  make  a  good  resolution  that  in  vacations  soon  to  come 
we  will  take  Green's  Hebrew  Grammar  with  us  ?  We  will  not 
find  it  hard  to  read.  I  know,  for  I  took  it  last  summer— I 
never  expected  to  come  to  that,  but  I  did— and  found  it  de- 
lightful. It  is  full  of  himself,  and  what  more  could  be  said? 
After  the  first  impression  of  class-rooms,  strictness,  delightful 
qualities  come  out.      I  shall   never  forget  my  surprise  when   I 


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read  that  admirable  little  tractate,  overflowing  with  keen  satire, 
deliciously  entitled   "  The  Pentateuch  Vindicated   against  the 
Aspersions  of  Bishop  Colenso."    It  is,  I  hope,  a  title  which  pos- 
terity will  not  willingly  let  die,  but  preserve  it  amended    by 
bracketing  along    with  the  bishop  the  names  of  some  other 
learned  Pundits,  who  still  asperse  the  Pentateuch.     It  was  my 
privilege  to  take  a  fourth  year,  studying  with  dear  old  Dr.Wistar 
Hodge  in  Biblical  theology  and  with  Dr.  Green  in  Hengsten- 
berg's  Christology,  talking  familiarly  with  them  both   in  the 
study  ;  and  when  one  comes  to  know  Dr.  Green  thus  his  Gentle- 
ness, sympathy,  and  goodness  blend  with  his  seriousness  and 
make  a  very  charming  compound.     I  have  even  come  to  sus- 
pect other  qualities  in  his  Hebrew  Grammar  than  those  which 
appear  on  the  surface.     I  should  not  be  afraid  to  maintain  the 
thesis  as  quite  as  defensible  as  some  other  results  of  the  proc- 
esses of  higher  criticism,  that  there  is  a  subtle  vein  of  humor 
running  through  the  Grammar.     It  may  have  been  unconscious 
on  the  part  of  its  author.     That  distinguished  scholar  and  an- 
tiquarian, Dr.    Samuel    Clemens,  of  the  Hartford  Theological 
Seminary  (is  he  not?),  so  might,  perhaps,  issue  a  companion 
volume  to  that  grammatical  treatise  intended  for  Portuguese 
youth,  which  he  edited  with  such  brilliant  erudition  some  time 
ago,  entitled  "English  as  She  Is  Spoke."    This  might  be  called, 
"  Hebrew  as  She  Is  Taught."      It  may  need  a  "  redacteur,"  but 
that  the  latest  scholarship  could  easily  supply.     I  might  par- 
ticularize, for  instance,  by  referring  to  Dr.  Green's  treatment  of 
that    mysterious  character,  "  Shv'a  "—silent  and  vocal  Shv'a. 
It   is  a  mere  echo  of  a  sound,  as  though  some   patriarch   had 
breathed   a  sigh  upon   the  morning  air,  ages   ago,  and   it  still 
haunted  the  world.     How  deftly  Dr.  Green  makes  this  ghost 
of  a  sound  appear  and  disappear,  like   the   ghost   in  "  Ham- 
let."    There  is  pathos  in  it,  which   is  close  to  humor.      Then 
there    is    Aleph  — Aleph,    the     first    letter    of    the    Hebrew 
alphabet  !      Aleph    in  Dr.   Green's  Grammar   appears    not   as 
a   mere  alphabetical   character,    but  more  as    a  living  charac- 
ter— one    of    the  dramatis   persona  on    the  linguistic   stage. 
Aleph  is  a  weak  letter.     Dr.  Green  speaks  as  if  he  sympathized 
with   the  weakness    of   Aleph,  perhaps  smiled   lovingly  over 


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it.     I  can  fancy  him  feeling  as  Dr.  Holmes  did  over  "  The  Last 

Leaf:" 

"  I  know  it  is  a  sin. 
For  me  to  sit  and  grin 
At  him  here." 

As  we  read  on  in  the  grammar  we  can  almost  picture  Aleph  as 
an  invalid,  wrapped  in  fleecy  robes  against  the  wintry  blast, 
or  wheeled  into  the  sunlight  on  some  balmy  Riviera  coast. 

But  I  can  only  suggest  what  you  may  pursue.  One  thing 
only  let  me  say  more.  It  has  not  been  said  to-day,  but  it  is  in 
every  heart.  We  would  all  beg  our  beloved  doctor  to  deal  as 
gently  with  himself  as  he  does  with  Aleph,  remembering  his 
own  weakness,  not  of  the  spirit,  but  of  the  flesh.  Let  him  not 
struggle  too  much  with  the  radicals — but  find  some  quiet  spot 
where,  to  use  the  old  phrase,  he  may  "quiesce  in  Hholem,"  and 
gather  new  strength  to  win  new  victories  for  sound  scholarship 
over  pretentious  pedantry,  and  sacred  learning  over  irreverent 
vandalism.  Meanwhile  his  revering  pupils  must  try  to  follow 
in  his  footsteps.  He  has  taught  us  to  love  the  sacred  things 
that  he  loved,  and  so  to  love  better  the  God  of  all  wisdom, 
love,  and  infinite  grace. 


THE   HEAD   OF  THE   FACULTY. 

BY   PROFESSOR   WILLIAM   M.    PAXTON,    D.D.,  LL.D. 

My  subject  is  Dr.  Green  as  the  Chairman  of  the  Faculty,  or, 
in  other  words,  as  President  of  the  Seminary. 

Dr.  Green  is  certainly  an  ideal  Chairman  of  the  Faculty,  for 
the  reason  that  no  man,  probably,  ever  had  such  an  ideal  faculty 
over  which  to  preside.  They  are  the  pick  of  the  whole  Church, 
elect  men,  elected  by  the  board,  elected  by  the  General  As- 
sembly. 

It  is  also  the  relation  of  these  professors  to  Dr.  Green  that  is 
so  ideal.  With  one  exception  they  are  his  students.  They  are 
his  workmanship.  He  has  made  them,  made  them  over  his  own 
last,  and  his  sign   and  superscription   are  on  them.     I  am  the 


AFTER-DINNER  SPEECHES  85 

only  exception,  as  I  happened  to  be  his  fellow-student,  he  being 
a  senior  while  I  was  a  junior.  As  he  had  the  reputation  of  being 
the  most  learned  student  in  the  Seminary,  we  were  all  taught 
to  look  up  to  him  with  the  most  profound  veneration. 

Thus  much  for  what  the  magazines  would  call  the  lighter 
vein. 

Now  for  a  word — as  our  Methodist  brethren  sometimes  say 
— of  solemn,  earnest  testimony.  Dr.  Green's  administration  as 
President  of  this  Seminary  has  been  characterized  by  a  success 
which  has  never  been  surpassed  at  any  former  period  of  our 
history.  Under  his  guidance  the  Seminary  has  grown  until  its 
numbers  have  become  almost  burdensome.  It  has  put  on  its 
beautiful  garments,  as  any  one  can  see  who  looks  on  Hodge 
Hall.  It  has  grown  in  its  curriculum  until  it  is  well-nigh  perfect. 
And  as  the  present  company  is  always  excepted,  especially 
the  speaker,  it  has  grown  in  its  Faculty  by  able  and  effective 
professors  and  teachers  until  the  number  has  well-nigh  doubled. 
This  Faculty  is  perfectly  united  in  thought,  feeling,  and  affec- 
tion. It  would  not  be  possible  to  find  a  group  of  scholarly  men 
more  perfectly  harmonious  upon  all  questions  of  religious  faith 
and  doctrine. 

With  all  this,  the  Seminary  has  grown  in  the  confidence  of 
the  Church  and  the  approval  of  the  public,  for  the  reason  that 
Princeton  Seminary  stands  for  something  positive  in  religious 
belief  and  teaching,  and  the  whole  world  sees  this  and  approves. 

The  reason  of  all  this  success  springs,  in  a  great  measure, 
from  the  strong  personality  and  vigorous  character  of  the  man 
whom  we  this  day  delight  to  honor.  The  character  of  Dr. 
Green  is  made  of  blocks  of  solid  granite.  The  storm  of  revision 
never  shook  it,  and  the  mining  and  sapping  of  higher  criticism 
never  made  him  think  for  a  moment  that  there  was  any  danger 
that  the  ground  upon  which  he  stood  would  cave  away  under 
him. 

Lord  Bolingbroke,  the  leading  English  deist,  said  to  a 
visitor:  "I  do  not  believe  in  a  divine  revelation,  but  those  who 
do  can  best  defend  it  on  the  principles  of  the  doctrine  of 
grace.  Therefore  I  read  John  Calvin's  '  Institutes,'  because  he 
stands  upon  the  doctrine  of  grace.    To  say  the  truth,"  continues 


86  AFTER-DINNER  SPEECHES 

Bolingbroke,  "  I  have  at  times  been  almost  persuaded  to  believe 
in  a  divine  revelation  on  this  view  of  things."  Then  turning  to 
Dr.  Church,  a  clergyman  of  the  English  Church,  who  had  just 
said,  "  We  don't  think  about  such  antiquated  stuff.  We  teach 
the  plain  doctrines  of  virtue  and  morality,  and  have  long  laid 
aside  these  points  about  grace  —  turning  to  this  clergyman, 
Bolingbroke  continued  :  "There  is  one  argument  that  has  gone 
very  far  with  me  in  behalf  of  the  authenticity  of  the  Bible, 
which  is  that  any  such  thing  as  faith  in  the  Bible  now  exists 
upon  the  earth,  when  its  defence  is  committed  to  the  care  of 
such  men  as  you,  who  pretend  to  believe  it,  and  yet  deny  the 
only  principles  upon  which  it  should  be  defended." 

This  is  true  to-day  as  it  was  then.  There  are  ministers  even 
in  our  own  Church  to-day  who  profess  to  believe  the  Bible,  but 
who  deny  the  principles  of  supernatural  grace  upon  which  it  is 
best  defended.  But,  thank  God,  there  are  men  now  who  stand 
where  John  Calvin  stood.  It  was  his  principles  of  supernatural 
grace  that  shook  the  doubts  of  Bolingbroke,  and  it  is  this 
Christian  phalanx,  at  the  head  of  which  stands  Dr.  Green,  that 
now  shakes  the  doubts  of  speculative  and  revolutionary  critics, 
and  dissipates  the  fogs  that  have  gathered  over  the  fair  face  of 
Christianity.  In  this  conflict  Dr.  Green  has  led  the  van.  With 
an  unfaltering  courage  he  has  always  been  ready  to  go  forth  in 
the  name  of  God  with  his  sling  and  stone  to  smite  any  Philis- 
tine who  defies  the  armies  of  Israel. 

It  is  for  this  reason  that  as  the  President  of  this  Seminary 
we  give  him  honor.  He  is  so  true  himself  that  we  believe  it  is 
the  word  of  truth  that  he  utters.  He  is  so  pure  of  heart  that 
we  feel  sure,  according  to  the  promise,  he  sees  God.  He  is  so 
wise  that,  if  it  were  not  human  to  err,  we  might  say  he  never 
makes  a  mistake.  He  is  so  just  that  his  discipline  is  never 
doubted.  And  yet  withal  he  is  so  kind,  so  considerate,  so  sym- 
pathetic, so  generous,  that  we  all  —  Faculty  and  students  —  this 
day  do  him  honor,  and  give  him,  with  the  affection  of  our 
hearts,  our  loyal  and  loving  obedience. 


APPENDIX 


TESTIMONIALS    AND    LETTERS    OF     REGRET 

FROM    INSTITUTIONS   OF   LEARNING 

AND   ASSOCIATIONS. 

THE   FACULTY    OF    PRINCETON    THEOLOGICAL   SEMINARY. 

Princeton,  N.  J.,  May  5,  1896. 

The  Reverend  William  Henry  Green,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

Dear  Dr.  Green  :  On  this  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  your  appointment 
to  a  place  in  the  Faculty  of  which  you  are  now  the  senior  member  and 
chairman,  we,  your  colleagues,  desire  to  add  to  those  which  you  will  re- 
ceive from  so  many  other  sources  the  expression  of  our  congratulations 
and  best  wishes,  of  our  profound  respect  and  warm  affection. 

We  thank  the  Great  Head  of  the  Church  for  your  long  and  eminent 
career  and  for  the  distinguished  services  which  as  teacher,  preacher,  and 
author  you  have  been  permitted  to  render  to  the  truth  and  to  the  Church 
of  God.  We  rejoice  in  the  added  distinction  which  your  gifts  and  attain- 
ments and  their  high  employment  have  conferred  upon  this  venerable 
Seminary  of  sacred  learning.  All  of  us,  except  one,  who  was  your  fellow- 
student,  have  had  the  great  honor  and  advantage  of  your  instruction  in  the 
lecture-rooms  of  the  Seminary  ;  and,  with  all  your  scholars,  we  are  deeply 
indebted  to  you  for  having  enlarged  our  knowledge  and  aided  and  stimu- 
lated our  study  of  Holy  Scripture,  and  for  having  confirmed  our  faith  in  its 
divine  origin  and  supreme  authority.  Associated  with  you  in  the  Faculty, 
we  are  your  debtors,  also,  for  your  high  example  in  daily  life  and  in  the 
discharge  of  official  duty,  for  your  wisdom  in  counsel,  for  your  friendship 
and  affection. 

We  pray  that  you  will  be  continued  long  in  life  and  health  to  bless 
your  family,  your  friends,  the  community  in  which  we  live,  the  neighboring 
college,  our  Seminary,  and  the  Church  of  Christ,  and  that  you  will  enjoy  al- 


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ways  and  abundantly  the  peace  of  God  which  passeth  all  understanding. 
We  remain,  dear  Dr.  Green,  with  veneration  and  with  affection,  very  sin- 
cerely your  friends, 

William  M.  Paxton, 

Benjamin  Breckinridge  Warfield, 

John  D.  Davis, 

George  T.  Purves, 

John  DeWitt, 

William  Brenton  Greene,  Jr., 

Geerhardus  Vos, 

Francis  L.  Patton, 

Chalmers  Martin. 


FROM    THE  STUDENTS    OF    PRINCETON    SEMINARY. 

On  the  occasion  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  Dr.  William  Henry 
Green's  entrance  upon  his  duties  in  Princeton  Theological  Seminary, 
we,  who  are  now  his  students,  wish  to  give  expression  to  the  affection  and 
esteem  in  which  we  hold  him.  We  have  been  helped  by  his  work  for  us 
in  the  class-room.  We  have  been  deeply  moved  by  his  earnest  spiritual 
addresses.  Above  all,  his  warm  personal  interest  in  each  one  of  us,  his 
simple,  right  life,  his  humble  piety  and  Christian  walk  have  been  to  us  a 
constant  inspiration  in  the  service  of  Christ,  his  Lord,  and  ours. 

Signed  by  all  the  students  in  the  Seminary,  session  of  1895-96. 


ACTION    OF   THE    FACULTY   OF   PRINCETON    COLLEGE. 

The  Faculty  tender  their  cordial  congratulations  to  the  authorities  of 
the  Theological  Seminary  and  to  Dr.  Green  on  the  occasion  of  the  fiftieth 
anniversary  of  his  appointment  as  Instructor  in  the  Seminary.  During 
this  long  period  of  service  he  has  pursued  the  vocation  of  a  scholar  and 
teacher  not  only  with  enthusiasm,  fidelity,  and  industry,  but  with  a  mod- 
esty, contentment,  and  success  demanding  the  most  generous  recognition. 
The  academic  profession  is  indebted  to  him  for  such  an  example  of  its 
highest  virtues. 

In  an  age  when  the  cause  of  Semitic  scholarship  and  Biblical  learning 
has  awakened  new  zeal  and  research  he  has  kept  pace  with  its  progress, 
and  has  enriched  it  with  valuable  works,  which  are  replete  with  solid  eru- 
dition and  cogent  argument.  The  judgment  of  competent  critics  abroad, 
as  well  as  of  pupils  and  colleagues  at  home,  has  placed  him  in  the  front 
rank  of  Hebrew  scholars. 


APPENDIX  91 

As  an  advocate  of  the  Higher  Criticism,  his  eminent  learning  has  been 
ennobled  by  intelligent  reverence  for  the  Holy  Scriptures  and  by  true 
spiritual  discernment  in  connection  with  that  linguistic  tact,  literary  skill, 
and  historical  research  which  are  requisite  in  the  study  of  all  ancient  liter- 
ature. The  result  is  that  he  has  not  disturbed  the  faith  of  the  unlearned, 
while  commanding  the  respect  of  scholars. 

Although  his  professional  work  has  been  confined  to  the  Theological 
Seminary,  the  College  has  had  the  constant  benefit  of  his  counsel  in  the 
Board  of  Trustees  ;  the  Faculty  has  found  in  him  an  appreciative  co- 
worker in  promoting  the  higher  education  ;  and  the  whole  academic  body 
has  enjoyed  the  polished  and  fervent  discourses  which  he  has  occasion- 
ally preached  in  the  chapel.  His  influence  has  thus  been  widely  ex- 
tended beyond  the  sphere  of  his  sacred  studies. 

Above  all  the  rewards  and  honors  of  scholarship,  he  is  now  distin- 
guished by  a  ripe  Christian  character,  in  which  the  academic  laurel 
appears  entwined  with  that  wreath  that  fadeth  not  away.  "  Serus  in 
ccelum  redcat." 

Attest:  Henry  Clay  Cameron, 

Clerk  of  Faculty. 


ACTION  OF  THE  PRESBYTERY  OF  NEW  BRUNSWICK. 

To  the  Rev.  William  H.  Green,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

Beloved  and  Reverend  Sir  :  The  Presbytery  of  New  Brunswick,  minis- 
ters and  ruling  elders  alike,  join  with  other  ecclesiastical  organizations 
and  with  a  multitude  of  our  Christian  brethren  throughout  this  and  other 
lands  in  affectionate  and  hearty  congratulations  on  the  fiftieth  anniversary 
of  your  appointment  as  Instructor  in  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Prince- 
ton. For  nearly  fifty  years  you  have  been  identified  with  this  Presbytery, 
and  the  majority  of  the  ministers  now  connected  therewith  have  known 
you  not  only  as  a  co-presbyter,  but  as  their  revered,  honored,  and  be- 
loved teacher,  to  whom  they  owe  a  debt  of  gratitude  for  the  prominent 
part  you  have  had  in  preparing  them  for  their  life-work  and  in  furnish- 
ing them  so  large  a  portion  of  the  equipment  used  as  preachers  of  the 
Word. 

We  all  join  in  the  high  estimate  so  many  thoughtful  men  throughout 
the  Church  have  placed  upon  the  contributions  you  have  made  to  biblical 
criticism,  Semitic  scholarship,  and  related  branches  of  learning,  as  evinced 
by  articles  from  your  pen  in  our  periodical  literature  and  by  the  scholarly 
books  you  have  given  to  the  world.  We  have  admired  you  and  have  been 
edified  by  you  as  a  preacher  of  the  Word,  and  we  especially  assure  you 
of  our  grateful  appreciation  of  you  as  a  member  of  the  same   Presbytery 


92  APPENDIX 

with  us.  Your  Christian  courtesy,  your  evident  interest  in  all  that  per- 
tains to  the  welfare  of  our  churches,  your  wise  counsels,  your  uniform 
kindness,  have  all  combined  to  win  for  you  a  warm  place  in  our  regard 
and  to  call  forth  our  veneration  for  your  personal  character  and  worth. 
We  give  thanks  to  God  for  your  long,  useful,  and  busy  life  as  an  instruc- 
tor of  instructors,  and  for  the  influence  you  have  exerted  in  behalf  of  the 
purity  and  authority  of  revealed  truth  as  given  to  us  in  the  Bible. 

Our  united  prayer  is  that  you  may  yet  for  many  years  be  spared  to 
your  family,  to  this  Presbytery,  to  the  Seminary,  and  to  the  Church  at 
large,  and  that  you  may  be  enabled  still  to  do  successful  work  for  the 
cause  of  truth  and  righteousness.  May  the  grace  of  the  Great  Teacher 
and  the  comforts  of  the  Holy  Ghost  be  yours  in  rich  abundance,  till  you 
shall  enter  upon  the  glorious  reward  of  those  who  have  fought  a  good 
fight,  and  have  finished  their  course,  and  have  kept  the  faith. 
In  behalf  of  the  Presbytery  : 


Samuel  M.  Studdiford, 
Abraham  Gosman, 
Henry  C.  Cameron, 
Frank  L.  Janeway, 
William  J.  Owens, 


Committee. 


THE  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  OF  ALLENTOWN,  N.  J. 

Whereas,  The  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  professorate  of  the  Rev.  Will- 
iam H.  Green,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  in  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton  is 
to  be  observed  on  Tuesday,  May  5th  ;  and 

Whereas,  The  Rev.  Dr.  Green  was  for  a  time,  when  a  lad,  a  member, 
with  his  father's  family,  of  this  congregation  ; 

Resolved,  That  we,  the  people  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Allen- 
town,  N.  J.,  tender  to  Dr.  Green  our  congratulations  and  rejoice  with 
gratitude  to  our  Lord  because  of  his  high  attainment  as  a  scholar,  and  in 
view  of  his  very  eminent  service  for  the  Presbyterian  Church  and  the 
kingdom  of  God. 

Resolved,  also,  That  this  resolution  be  signed  by  the  clerk  of  the  ses- 
sion, Mr.  Henry  R.  Taylor,  and  forwarded  to  Dr.  Green  by  the  pastor, 
Rev.  George  Swain. 

[Signed]  Henry  R.  Taylor, 

Clerk  of  Session. 
Allentown,  N.  J.,  May  3,  1896. 


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THE   PRESBYTERY  OF  PHILADELPHIA. 

The  Presbytery  of  Philadelphia  extends  its  most  hearty  congratula- 
tions to  the  Rev.  William  Henry  Green,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  our  former  co- 
presbyter,  on  the  occasion  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  his  connection 
with  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  as  teacher  of  Old  Testament  and 
Oriental  Literature,  expressing  at  the  same  time  the  hope  and  prayer  that 
he  may  be  spared  for  many  years  to  continue  that  important  work,  for  the 
prosecution  of  which  he  has  been  so  richly  endowed  by  the  Head  of  the 
Church,  and  in  which  he  has  made  such  high  attainment  as  to  deservedly 
win  international  reputation. 

Andrew  Jackson  Sullivan, 
Moderator. 
W.  W.  Rice,  Stated  Clerk. 
Robert  Hunter,  Permanent  Clerk. 

Adopted  unanimously  by  a  rising  vote.     May  4,  1896.     R.  H. 


THE  PRESBYTERIAN  MINISTERIAL  ASSOCIATION  OF  PHILA- 
DELPHIA AND  VICINITY. 

The  following  paper  was  adopted  May  4,  1896,  by  the  Presbyterian 
Ministerial  Association  of  Philadelphia  and  Vicinity,  and  directed  to  be 
presented  to  Professor  William  Henry  Green  on  the  occasion  of  the  fifti- 
eth anniversary  of  his  professorship  in  Princeton  Theological  Seminary 
by  a  committee  consisting  of  Rev.  Thomas  Murphy,  D.D.,  Rev.  J.  Addi- 
son Henry,  D.D.,  and  Rev.  Thomas  A.  Hoyt,  D.D. 

Among  all  the  favored  men  of  the  present  day  who  have  been  raised 
up  by  the  Lord  for  the  honor  of  our  Church,  the  defence  of  His  cause,  and 
the  glory  of  His  name,  there  is  none  more  worthy  of  a  high  place  in  pub- 
lic estimation  than  Professor  W.  H.  Green,  of  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary.  We  do  not  use  language  of  exaggeration,  but  "  words  of  truth 
and  soberness,"  in  assigning  him  a  lofty  position  on  the  roll  of  Christian 
scholarship.  We  might  attempt  to  depict  the  great  excellence  of  his 
character,  which  has  impressed  itself  on  the  many  hundreds  of  young  men 
in  whose  training  for  the  sacred  ministry  he  has  taken  so  conspicuous  a 
part.  His  own  personal  modesty  is  such  that  other  pens  than  his  own 
must  do  this,  but  we  rejoice  that  many  others  are  doing  it  justly  and  lov- 
ingly. It  is  probable  that  no  living  man  has  rendered  more  valuable 
services  than  Dr.  Green  in  the  sphere  of  oriental  learning,  by  his  gram- 
mar of  the  Hebrew  language,  his  revised  version  of  a  portion  of  the  Old 


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Testament,  and  his  masterly  defence  of  important  parts  of  the  Sacred 
Scriptures.  In  addition  to  these  we  cannot  fail  to  mention  his  invaluable 
work  as  a  teacher  of  theology,  who  has  never  faltered  in  the  soundness  of 
his  views.  In  celebrating  the  jubilee  of  such  a  professor  our  Church 
does  honor  to  herself  and  to  the  cause  of  which  for  half  a  century  he  has 
been  a  noble  representative.  He  is  pre-eminently  a  learned,  great,  and 
a  good  man,  combining  the  rare  qualities  of  a  ripe  scholar  and  a  hum- 
ble Christian.  It  will  long  be  regarded  as  a  distinction  to  have  been 
trained  in  the  theological  school  of  which  he  is  so  conspicuous  an  orna- 
ment. 


THE  MINISTERS'  ASSOCIATION  OF  BALTIMORE. 

The  Ministers'  Association  of  Baltimore  City,  consisting  of  the  pas- 
tors of  the  Presbyterian,  Reformed,  and  Congregational  Churches,  beg  to 
express  their  congratulations  to  the  Directors  of  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary  and  to  Professor  William  Henry  Green,  on  the  completion  of 
his  fiftieth  year  of  instruction.  The  Church  and  the  world  have  recognized 
his  peculiar  gifts  and  eminent  services  in  his  department  in  interpreting 
and  vindicating  the  authority  and  integrity  of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  in 
which  appreciation  this  association  cordially  joins  and  expresses  the  hope 
that  he  may  be  long  spared  to  continue  his  labors. 
Signed  for  the  Committee  : 

Joseph  T.  Smith, 
John  P.  Campbell, 
E.  E.  Weaver. 

The  above  resolution    was  unanimously  adopted   at    the    meeting  of 
the  Association,  April  27,  1896. 

For  the  Committee  : 

John  P.  Campbell. 
Baltimore,  Md.,  April  28,  1896. 


ALLIANCE  OF  THE  REFORMED  CHURCHES. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.,  May  4,  1896. 

To  the  Faculty  of  the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary. 

Dear  Brethren :  The  Western  Section  of  the  Commission  of  this  Al- 
liance, in  session  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  April  26,  1896,  having  had  brought 
to  their  attention  the  fact  that  the  semi-centennial  of  the  Rev.  William 
Henry  Green,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Professor   of  Oriental   and   Old   Testament 


APPENDIX  95 

Literature  in  the  Seminary,  was  about  to  be  celebrated,  in  order  to  give 
expression  to  the  sentiments  of  high  esteem  and  regard  cherished  by  the 
Churches  represented  in  the  Alliance  for  the  Rev.  Dr.  Green,  by  resolu- 
tion, duly  adopted,  appointed  a  delegation  to  be  present  at  the  semi-cen- 
tennial exercise.  This  delegation  consists  of  the  Rev.  William  H. 
Roberts,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Chairman  of  the  Section  and  President  of  the  Al- 
liance ;  the  Rev.  D.  J.  Burrell,  D.D.,  of  the  Collegiate  Reformed  Church, 
New  York  City;  the  Rev.  David  Steele,  D.D.,  Professor  in  the  Re- 
formed Theological  Seminary,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  ;  the  Rev.  David  Waters, 
D.D.,  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  ;  the  Rev.  W.  Barr,  D.D.,  Secre- 
tary of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  United  Presbyterian  Church  ; 
and  the  Rev.  James  I.  Good,  D.D.,  Professor  in  the  German  Reformed 
College,  at  Reading,  Pa. 

Tendering  to  you  our  warm  congratulations  upon  this  auspicious  anni- 
versary, I  am,  in  behalf  of  the  Alliance, 

Yours  cordially, 

William  Henry  Roberts. 


TELEGRAM     FROM     THE     CONVENTION    OF     THE    PROTES- 
TANT EPISCOPAL  DIOCESE  OF  NEW  JERSEY. 

Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  May  5,  1896. 

The  Convention  of  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey  sends  its  congratulations 
to  the  Rev.  Dr.  William  Henry  Green  upon  the  happy  anniversary 
which  is  this  day  being  observed  in  Princeton,  and  expresses  its  grate- 
ful appreciation  of  the  eminent  service  he  has  rendered  the  entire  world 
in  the  Department  of  Old  Testament  Criticism  and  Interpretation. 

Elvin  K.  Smith, 

Secretary. 


AUBURN  THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY. 

Auburn,  N.  Y.,  May  1,  1896. 
Rev.  and  Dear  Sir  : 

The  Faculty  of  the  Theological  Seminary  of  Auburn,  in  the  State  of  New 
York,  desire  most  cordially  to  acknowledge  the  courtesy  of  the  invitation 
to  be  present  at  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appoint- 
ment of  Professor  William  Henry  Green  as  an  Instructor  in  the  Semi- 
nary. 

The  pressure  of  engagements  connected  with  the  closing  exercise  of 


g6  APPENDIX 

our  own  Seminary  forbids  a  general  acceptance.  We  are  grateful,  how- 
ever, to  be  represented  by  our  senior  professor,  who  is  also  a  co-laborer 
with  Dr.  Green  in  the  department  of  Old  Testament  Literature,  and  who 
will  be  able  to  express  personally  our  congratulation  and  our  rejoicing 
with  you  in  this  interesting  anniversary.  We  desire  as  a  body  to  express 
our  appreciation  of  the  noble  labors  of  Professor  Green,  the  high  ideals  of 
scholarship  and  of  Christian  living  which  he  has  illustrated  in  these  long 
years  of  consecrated  devotion  to  the  work  to  which  God  early  called  him, 
and  of  the  honor  which  he  has  reflected  upon  our  Church  and  upon 
American  scholarship.  We  unite  with  you  in  our  prayer  to  the  Head  of 
the  Church  that  he  may  long  be  spared  to  bring  forth  fruit  in  old  age 
to  the  glory  of  God  and  to  the  advancement  of  sound  faith  and  Biblical 
learning.  On  behalf  of  the  Faculty,  I  have  the  honor  to  be 
Yours  most  respectfully, 

Timothy  G.  Darling, 

Clerk. 


DANVILLE  THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY. 

Danville,  Ky.,  April  n,  1896. 
My  Dear  Sir  : 

I  have  held  the  invitation  to  attend  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  Dr. 
Green's  appointment  to  service  in  Princeton  Seminary,  hoping  to  find 
my  way  clear  to  attend.  I  admire  and  love  Dr.  Green  very  sincerely, 
and  would  be  most  happy  to  express  my  interest  by  attending  that  ser- 
vice; but  the  recent  death  of  our  loved  and  venerated  Dr.  Yerkes  makes 
it  incumbent  on  me  to  be  here  the  week  of  the  service  at  Princeton.  So 
I  am  obliged  to  decline. 

Very  truly  your3, 

J.  M.  WORRALL. 


THE   GERMAN    PRESBYTERIAN    THEOLOGICAL    SCHOOL   OF 
THE   NORTHWEST. 

Dubuque,  Ia.,  April  9,  1896. 
Dear  Brother  : 

Our  Faculty  desired  me  to  express  through  you  its  appreciation  of  the 

honor  conferred  by  your  committee  in  the  invitation  given  to  attend  the 

celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Dr.  William 

Henry  Green  as  an  Instructor  in  the  Seminary.     This  Faculty  is  in  hearty 

sympathy  with  the   purpose  of  this  celebration  and  regrets  the  fact  that 

none  of  its  members  can  be  present  on  that  great  occasion.     Every  mem- 


APPENDIX  97 

ber  of  this  Faculty  cherishes  the  highest  regard  for  the  great  and  good 
Doctor  and  would  have  been  much  pleased  to  give  visible  expression  of 
this  by  being  present  at  the  celebration  on  the  fifth  proximo. 
On  behalf  of  the  Faculty  : 

Adam  McClelland, 

Chairman. 


THE   SAN    FRANCISCO   THEOLOGICAL   SEMINARY. 

San  Anselmo,  Cal.,  April  2,  1896. 
Dear  Brother  : 

Our  Faculty  have  received  the  invitation  to  attend  the  fiftieth  anniver- 
sary of  Dr.  William  Henry  Green's  connection  with  Princeton  Seminary 
as  an  Instructor.  Every  member  of  the  Faculty  would  esteem  it  a  great 
privilege  and  honor  to  be  present  on  an  occasion  of  so  much  interest  to 
our  entire  Church.  But  distance  will  prevent  the  attendance  of  any  of 
our  number.  We  would  like,  however,  to  unite  in  the  great  chorus  of  con- 
gratulations which  will  be  offered  at  this  time.  We  congratulate  Prince- 
ton Seminary  that  it  has  enjoyed  for  half  a  century  the  services  of  so  emi- 
nent a  scholar,  so  efficient  a  teacher,  and  so  humble  and  modest  a  follower 
of  Jesus  Christ.  We  congratulate  the  Presbyterian  Church  that  it  has  so 
long  profited  by  the  services  of  one  who  is  admitted  to  be  one  of  the 
most  distinguished  divines  and  one  of  the  most  eminent  Biblical  scholars 
in  the  world.  Please  express  to  Dr.  Green  our  great  affection  for  him,  for, 
though  some  of  us  have  never  been  intimately  associated  with  him,  we 
have  long  since  learned  to  love  him.  Also  express  the  hope  that  he  may 
be  spared  much  longer  to  be  what  he  has  so  long  been,  a  teacher  of  minis- 
ters, an  example  to  believers,  and  a  defender  of  the  faith. 
On  behalf  of  the  Faculty  : 

Thomas  F.  Day, 

Chairma)i, 
Warren  H.  Landon, 

Clerk. 


UNION   THEOLOGICAL   SEMINARY,    NEW   YORK    CITY. 

The  Faculty  of  the  Union  Theological  Seminary  acknowledge  the 
courtesy  of  the  invitation  of  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton  for 
the  5th  of  May,  which  we  regret  we  are  unable  to  accept. 

Very  truly  yours, 

Francis  Brown. 

Secretary  of  Faculty. 
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98  APPENDIX 

THE    RICHMOND*  THEOLOGICAL   SEMINARY. 

Richmond,  Va.,  March  26,  1896. 
Dear  Sir  : 

Your  kind  invitation  to  be  present  at  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  ap- 
pointment of  Professor  Green  is  at  hand.  I  exceedingly  regret  that  I  can- 
not be  present  on  that  occasion.  Please  tender  my  hearty  congratulations 
to  Dr.  Green,  the  distinguished  teacher,  whose  name  is  a  household  word 
among  the  Biblical  scholars  of  the  nineteenth  century,  and  whose  influ- 
ence in  the  cause  of  sacred  learning  is  felt  among  all  the  nations  of  the 
earth  and  the  far-off  islands  of  the  sea. 

Respectfully  yours, 

C.  H.  Corey, 

President. 


UNION    THEOLOGICAL   SEMINARY,    VIRGINIA. 

Hampden-Sidney,  Va.,  March  28,  1896. 
Dear  Brother  : 

In  behalf  of  the  Faculty  of  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  Virginia,  I 
beg  to  acknowledge  with  thanks  your  kind  invitation  to  attend  the  cele- 
bration of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Professor  William 
Henry  Green  as  an  Instructor  in  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  at  Princeton,  N.  J. 

Recognizing  the  fact  that  the  occasion  is  one  worthy  of  being  com- 
memorated, it  is  a  matter  of  genuine  regret  that  our  own  Institution,  hav- 
ing so  much  in  common  with  yours,  cannot  be  represented  in  person.  It 
would,  indeed,  be  a  privilege  to  do  honor  to  one  so  deserving  of  honor,  and 
to  join  in  thanksgiving  to  God  for  the  services  rendered  by  this  dauntless 
soldier  of  the  cross,  who  has  so  long  stood  in  the  breach,  and  because  of 
whom  so  many  of  the  friends  of  the  truth  have  had  occasion  to  thank  God 
and  take  courage.  All  honor  to  this  venerable  defender  of  the  faith,  and 
may  his  bow  long  abide  in  strength,  to  the  confusion  of  all  enemies  of  the 
truth  and  to  the  comfort  of  its  friends.  With  the  heartiest  congratula- 
tions. 

Yours  very  sincerely, 

T.  R.  English, 

Clerk  of  the  Faculty. 


APPENDIX  99 


ERSKINE   THEOLOGICAL   SEMINARY. 

Due  West,  S.  C,  April  2,  1896. 

Whereas,  The  Theological  Seminary  of  Princeton,  N.  J.,  has  extended 
an  invitation  to  Erskine  Theological  Seminary  to  be  present  at  the  semi- 
centennial celebration  of  the  professorship  of  William  Henry  Green,  O.D., 
LL.D.  ;    therefore 

Resolved,  By  the  Faculty  and  students  of  Erskine  Theological  Semi- 
nary, that  we  express  our  grateful  appreciation  of  the  kind  invitation,  and 
beg  to  unite  in  the  congratulations  of  the  occasion  to  one  who  by  his  piety 
and  learning  is  rightly  recognized  as  one  of  the  ablest  representatives  of 
Biblical  scholarship  in  this  country  ;  and  who  by  his  unswerving  defence 
of  the  truth  has  made  the  whole  Church  his  debtor. 

W.  L.  Pressly, 

President. 


THE  ALLEGHENY  THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY. 

March  25,  1896. 
Dear  Brother  : 

We  are  pleased  to  have  your  invitation  to  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth 
anniversary  of  the  introduction  of  Professor  William  Henry  Green  into 
the  corps  of  instructors  of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary. 

No  man  more  deserves  recognition  at  the  hands  of  his  Church  and  of 
all  the  Churches  than  Professor  Green.  He  has  been  and  is  a  tower  of 
strength  to  the  cause  of  Christian  learning  upon  this  continent.  His  work 
is  even  increasingly  valuable  as  the  Old  Testament  is  more  critically 
examined.  The  Church  is  everywhere  thankful  that  such  a  man  has  been 
raised  up  for  the  defence  of  the  truth.  Please  convey  our  good  wishes  to 
him.  We  trust  that  the  occasion  will  prove  a  very  enjoyable  one. 
I  am  very  truly  yours,  for  the  Faculty  : 

J.  A.  Grier. 


REFORMED    PRESBYTERIAN    THEOLOGICAL   SEMINARY, 
ALLEGHENY,   PA. 

Allegheny,  Pa.,  May  4,  1896. 
Dear  Sir  : 

We  rejoice  with  you  all  in  the  celebration  this  week  on  account  of  the 
long  service  Dr.   William   Henry  Green  has  been  enabled  to  render  to 


ioo  APPENDIX 

Princeton  Seminary.  This  has  been  a  service  to  which  the  whole  Church 
of  Christ,  by  reason  of  his  devotion  to  the  study  of  the  Scriptures,  his  in- 
struction of  so  many  ministers  of  the  Word  of  God,  and  his  constant  de- 
fence of  its  integrity  and  authority. 

Yours  in  the  service  of  Christ, 

D.  B.  WlLLSON. 


AUGSBURG  SEMINARY  (LUTHERAN). 

Minneapolis,  Minn.,  March  26,  1896. 

The  kind  invitation  to  the  celebration  on  May  5th  at  the  fiftieth  anni- 
versary of  the  appointment  of  Professor  W.  H.  Green  is  duly  received. 
As  Augsburg  Seminary  cannot  be  represented  on  this  occasion,  we  beg  to 
send  our  congratulations.  May  the  blessing  of  our  Lord  rest  on  the  Sem- 
inary and  its  teachers  and  students  ! 

In  behalf  of  Augsburg  Seminary  : 

George  Svendrup, 

President. 


BANGOR  THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY. 

Bangor,  Me.,  March  26,  1896. 
Dear  Sir  : 

I  am  appointed  by  the  Faculty  of  the  Bangor  Theological  Seminary  to 
respond  to  the  invitation  to  attend  the  Jubilee  of  Dr.  Green's  connection 
with  Princeton  Theological  Seminary.  This  institution  sends  its  greetings 
and  congratulations  to  Princeton  Seminary  and  to  Dr.  Green,  and  wishes 
many  years  of  usefulness  to  the  reverend  professor,  whose  devotion  to  the 
institution  you  will  soon  acknowledge.  The  Faculty  of  Bangor  also  send 
thanks  for  the  invitation,  but  regret  inability  to  attend,  inasmuch  as  our  own 
duties  will  not  permit  our  absence  so  near  the  end  of  the  academic  year. 

For  the  Faculty  : 

George  W.  Gilmore. 


THE  THEOLOGICAL  FACULTY  OF  BOSTON  UNIVERSITY. 

March  31,  1896. 
Reverend  and  Dear  Sir  : 

On  behalf  of  the  Theological  Faculty  of  Boston  University,  the  under- 
signed returns  sincere  thanks  to  the  authorities  of  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary  for  their  kind  invitation  to  share  in  the  approaching  Jubilaeum. 


APPENDIX  ioi 

The  occasion  is  one  of  interest  to  all  American  scholars  and  particularly 
to  all  evangelical  theological  seminaries.  But  for  the  expected  absence 
of  our  Dean  from  home  and  possibly  of  one  or  two  other  members  of  our 
Faculty  the  whole  month,  we  should  doubtless  appoint  a  representative  to 
be  present  at  the  celebration.  As  it  is,  we  send  our  most  cordial  congrat- 
ulations to  your  honored  Seminary  and  our  sincere  wishes  that  yet  other 
fruitful  years  may  be  added  to  the  life  of  the  colleague  whom  we  all  so 
highly  honor. 

Fraternally  yours, 

William  F.  Warren. 


CHICAGO  THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY. 

March  31,  1896. 
Our  Faculty  were  much  gratified  to  receive  the  invitation  to  be  pres- 
ent at  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  Dr.  Green's  appointment  as  teacher  in 
Princeton  Theological  Seminary.  I  doubt  if  any  of  us  will  be  able  to  at- 
tend in  person,  but  we  will  all  be  there  in  spirit  and  rejoice  in  the  recogni- 
tion of  great  learning,  ability,  devotion  to  truth,  and  personal  piety,  which 
will  be  given  in  the  honors  paid  Professor  Green.  Women  clarum  et 
vcncrabile  /  May  every  blessing  attend  him  and  the  noble  institution 
which  he  so  worthily  represents.     In  behalf  of  the  Faculty. 

Very  truly  yours, 

H.  M.  Scott, 

Secretary. 


THE   SCHOOL    OF   THEOLOGY   OF    DE   PAUW    UNIVERSITY. 

Greencastle,  Ind.,  March  25,  1896. 
Dear  Sir  : 

I  have  received  your  very  kind  invitation  to  the   celebration  of  the 

fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Professor  William  Henry  Green. 

I  am  very  sorry  that  my  engagements  make  it  impossible  for  me  to  be 

present.     I  hold  Dr.  Green  in  the  most  profound  honor  and  esteem.     He 

has  done  an  eminently  great  work  for  the  cause  of  theological  education. 

He  deserves  a  testimonial  from  the  entire  nation  in  recognition  of  his  great 

services.     I  trust  the  occasion  will  prove  very  gratifying  to  all  concerned. 

If  a  newspaper  account  is  published,  I  shall  esteem  it  a  great  pleasure  to 

receive  a  copy,  and  will  gladly  pay  the  expenses  of  the  same. 

Very  cordially, 

H.  A.  Gobin, 

Dean  of  School  of  Theology  and  Acting  President. 


APPENDIX 


DREW  THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY. 

Madison,  N.  J.,  April  13,  1896. 

To  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Princeton,  N.  J.  : 

The  Faculty  of  Drew  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  beg  to  acknowledge  with  thanks  the  kind  invitation  with  which 
you  have  honored  us  to  be  present  at  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anni- 
versary of  the  appointment  of  Professor  William  Henry  Green  as  an  In- 
structor in  the  Seminary. 

Your  celebration  comes  at  the  time  when  the  General  Conference  of 
our  Church  is  in  session,  and  as  some  of  our  Faculty  will  be  members  of 
that  body  and  the  others  will  be  in  Europe,  we  greatly  regret  that  we  can- 
not be  personally  represented  on  that  important  occasion.  We  will  be 
with  you,  however,  in  spirit,  and  join  most  heartily  in  every  tribute  of  rev- 
erence and  affection  for  the  eminent  professor,  scholar,  and  author  who 
has  rendered  such  valuable  service  not  only  to  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
but  to  the  whole  Christian  world.  Professor  Green's  long  period  of  use- 
fulness in  the  institution  which  he  has  served  with  such  distinguished  abil- 
ity has  made  an  abiding  impression  on  the  age,  and  his  writings  have 
contributed  alike  to  the  advancement  of  Biblical  scholarship  and  to  the 
defence  of  the  sacred  Scriptures. 

We  unite  in  the  profoundest  respect  for  Dr.  Green  and  in  sincerest 
congratulations  to  the  Seminary  which  has  so  long  had  the  privilege  of 
having  his  name  associated  with  it.  Wishing  for  you  a  most  delightful 
and  successful  occasion,  I  am,  on  behalf  of  the  Faculty, 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

Henry  A.  Buttz. 


THE     THEOLOGICAL     SEMINARY     OF     THE     EVANGELICAL 
LUTHERAN  CHURCH  OF  OHIO  AND  ADJACENT  STATES. 

The  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Evangelical  Lutheran  Synod  of  Ohio 
and  Adjacent  States  sends  greeting  to  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States,  and  recognizing  the  eminent 
services  rendered  by  Dr.  William  Henry  Green  to  the  cause  of  Christianity, 
congratulates  him  and  the  Seminary  which  he  has  so  long  and  so  ably 
served  upon  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  his  professorship,  with  the  Faculty's 
regrets  that  they  are  unable  to  be  personally  represented  at  the  coming 
celebration. 

Columbus,  O.,  March  31,  1896. 


APPENDIX  I°3 

GAMMON    THEOLOGICAL   SEMINARY. 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  April  26,  1896. 
Reverend  and  Dear  Sir  : 

We  beg  to  acknowledge  with  sincere  thanks  the  invitation  to  be  present 
at  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Pro- 
fessor William  H.  Green  as  Instructor  in  your  noble  institution.  We  very 
much  regret  the  inability  of  our  Seminary  to  have  a  representative  with 
you  on  that  occasion. 

We  remember  with  especial  pleasure  a  visit  which  Dr.  Green  was  kind 
enough  to  pay  to  us  several  years  ago,  and  the  shelves  of  our  library  bear 
witness  to  the  generous  spirit  of  this  noble  scholar  and  friend  of  humanity. 
He  was  kind  enough  to  send  us  a  set  of  his  publications.  With  congratu- 
lations and  regards,  we  remain, 

Fraternally  and  truly  yours, 

W.  P.  Thirkield, 

President. 


GARRETT  BIBLICAL  INSTITUTE. 

The  Faculty  of  Garrett  Biblical  Institute,  at  Evanston,  111.,  express 
their  thanks  to  the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  for  the  honor  of 
an  invitation  to  the  celebration  of  Professor  Green's  fiftieth  anniversary, 
and  regret  exceedingly  that  duties  connected  with  commencement  week 
in  Evanston  and  with  the  session  of  the  General  Conference  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  at  Cleveland,  O.,  render  it  impossible  for 
any  representation  of  the  Evanston  Seminary  to  be  present  at  the  celebra- 
tion. The  Faculty  of  the  Institute  are  happy  to  have  this  opportunity  to 
express  their  high  appreciation  of  the  noble  character  and  distinguished 
services  of  Professor  Green,  and  to  send  to  Princeton  Seminary  their  con- 
gratulations and  fraternal  greetings. 

Signed  for  the  Faculty  : 

Charles  J.  Little,  President. 

Charles  F.  Bradlv,  Secretary. 

Evanston,  III.,  April  27,  1896. 


104  APPENDIX 

-jmin  T^nn/h  ti  oh& 

HEBREW    UNION     COLLEGE. 

Cincinnati,  O.,  May,  1896. 

nsrsan  asnn  -nasi 
■jow'nB  -nya  "pnat  "nan  D?b*n  ibb'tib 

inaa»i  tsti 

n:to  ff'wenn  n:©  bar*  n:t?  ^b  nanp  ia  irba  rwa  rntoa 
oca   ?TD  "it?»    ff'-rvabn    maa   n-na  rwib    by    napin    dyhs 

Princeton  Theological  Seminary. 

-p'-x  isa*"  pimai  anpai  nwi  barri  ova  7a  -ot  nnaaa 

j  rmsm  pm  rrnon  ns  wmp  manai  T?"n  Tnam  fnafcn 
*npa  wwa  no  i:b  nirx  trnen  maa  D*vnan  i:n:a  oa 
»^b  maa  nnbn  "pn  dt  nmsrca  anynnb  ^nac  mpab  sab  wipa 
mfcnnb  ban:  sb  nipan  laira  pirn  pn  ^  .  nbnn  ib  nnsr  -ir« 
mm,  masn  "nan  rs  T>b«  nb©:n  "j-idts  o^mta  pb  "pas  ns 
naitam  nann  ^nbys  nsti  "jDny  b-tj  ns?  i:y-r  id  naiai  oibc  "nai 
-n«  ir^-isb  iiKb  nsnn  mux  n^npTi  rnsoa  as  ts  rrnro  D} 
ibys  DTibK  obtr  joi'pn  -nso  byi  rmasn  nsirn  by  ^n^Dn 
Tmarc  by  Qipio  ny  qo">  ;  abiy  -j-na  nya  r\-obv  ^nataa  nm 
s  nanai  naita  na^ira  aian  wi  Tnnaoa  by  n-naaa  as  naym 
:  wsa  ns  tn-ncn  maa  a-man  Tnaaa  Tna*  "nan 

The  President  and  the  Faculty  of  the  Hebrew  Union  College. 

Isaac  M.  Wise, 

President  H.  U.  C. 

Dr.  M.  Mielziner, 

Secretary  pro  tern. 


APPENDIX  105 


THE     MISSION     HOUSE    OF   -THE    REFORMED    CHURCH     IN 
THE   UNITED   STATES    OF   AMERICA. 

To  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
the  United  States  of  North  America,  at  Princeton,  N.  J. 

GREETING. 

We  gratefully  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  an  invitation  to  be  present  at 
the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  Professor  William  Henry 
Green  as  an  Instructor  in  this  Seminary.  Regretting  our  inability  to  be 
present  in  person,  we  would,  nevertheless,  extend  our  most  cordial  con- 
gratulations to  the  Seminary  and  to  Professor  Green,  who,  by  the  providence 
of  our  Heavenly  Father,  has  been  enabled  so  long  to  fill  the  useful  and 
honorable  office  of  a  professor  of  theology.  We  acknowledge  the  eminent 
services  which  Dr.  Green  has  rendered  not  only  to  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  but  by  his  literary  labors  to  the  Christian  Church  in  general  ;  and 
we  pray  God  still  to  protect  and  bless  him  and  to  crown  the  evening  of 
his  life  with  the  peace  which  passeth  all  understanding. 

Given  at  Franklin,  Wis.,  March  27,  1896. 
H.  A.   Muehlmeir,  President, 
H.  A.  MuiR,  Secretary, 
J.  Van  Haagen, 
J.  Glaubertz, 
Frank.  Grether, 
J.  W.  Grosshuesch, 
D.  S.  Hagenmlyer, 
Edward  Hentz, 

The  Faculty  of  the  Mission  House  of  the  Reformed 

Church  in  the  United  States. 


THEOLOGICAL     SEMINARY    OF    THE    (LUTHERAN)    UNITED 
SYNOD,    NEWBERRY,    S.    C. 

Newberry,  S.  C,  March  27,  1896. 
Dear  Sir  : 

I  take  great  pleasure  in  acknowledging  with  thanks  the  receipt  of 
the  invitation  of  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton  to  be  present  at 
the  anniversary  celebration  in  honor  of  Dr.  William  Henry  Green.  It 
will  not  be  possible,  I  regret  to  say,  for  me  to  be  present  on  the  notable 
occasion.  But  I  may  at  least  have  the  pleasure  of  expressing  here  in  a 
sentence  or  two  the  high  appreciation  I  have  of  the  very  eminent  services 


106  APPENDIX 

of  Dr.  Green.  The  anniversary  of  so  extraordinarily  long  and  able  a 
career  as  an  instructor  and  theologian  is  an  event  not  only  in  the  history 
of  Princeton  Seminary,  but  of  theological  education  the  world  over.  The 
services  of  Dr.  Green  to  the  cause  of  conservative  Biblical  scholarship 
were  never  more  valuable  than  in  recent  years,  and  it  almost  appears  as  if 
his  learning  and  ability  could  be  least  of  all  spared  at  the  present  time, 
when  his  distinguished  career  is  drawing  to  so  glorious  a  close. 

May  many  years  of  usefulness  still  be  added  to  the  fifty  that  have 
passed  and  may  God  crown  the  evening  of  life  for  His  distinguished  ser- 
vant with  His  peace. 

Very  respectfully  yours, 

A.  G.  Yoigt, 

Senior  Professor. 


NEWTON    THEOLOGICAL    INSTITUTE. 

Newton  Center,  Mass.,  May  2,  1896. 
My  Dear  Dr.  Green  : 

I  have  been  requested  by  my  colleagues  in  the  Faculty  of  the  Newton 
Theological  Institution  to  represent  them,  either  in  person  or  by  letter,  at 
the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  your  work  as  a  teacher  in  Princeton.  Until  two 
days  ago  I  entertained  a  hope  of  being  able  to  be  in  Princeton  on  the  5th, 
that  I  might  have  the  pleasure  of  seeing  you  again  with  the  other  distin- 
guished scholars  who  will  be  there  to  pay  you  deserved  honor.  But  I  re- 
gret to  find  that  pressing  duties  will  prevent  my  leaving  Newton  at  that 
time.  The  only  thing,  therefore,  which  I  can  do  in  fulfilment  of  the  wishes 
of  my  associates  is  to  assure  you  by  letter  of  our  high  appreciation  of  your 
truly  eminent  and  faithful  service  of  Christ  in  the  defence  and  interpreta- 
tion of  the  Old  Testament.  This  I  do  with  all  my  heart.  For  a  quarter  of 
a  century  I  have  looked  upon  your  writings  as  invaluable.  Their  learning, 
lucidness,  and  cogency  have  always  commanded  respect.  Their  unswerv- 
ing defence  of  the  authenticity  and  integrity  of  the  Pentateuch  has  sus- 
tained the  faith  and  courage  of  many.  To  them  I  reckon  myself  a  debtor 
for  a  large  amount  of  instruction,  and  from  them  as  well  as  from  personal 
intercourse  with  yourself  in  my  own  home  I  have  learned  to  think  of  you 
always  as  an  earnest  and  powerful  defender  of  revealed  truth. 

With  multitudes  who  reverence  "the  oracles  of  God"  I  cherish  the 
hope  that  your  work  as  a  living  interpreter  may  yet  continue  many  years, 
but  at  the  same  time  the  assurance  that  if  that  form  of  your  service  should 
end  to-morrow,  your  work  in  other  forms  would  go  on  to  the  end  of  time. 

In  behalf  of  my  associates,  I  am  with  great  respect, 
Most  cordially  yours, 

Alvah  Hovey, 
President  Newton  Theological  Institute. 


APPENDIX  107 

OBERLIN    THEOLOGICAL   SEMINARY. 

Oberlin,  O.,  April  8,  1896. 
Dear  Sir  : 

I  have  the  honor,  on  behalf  of  the  Faculty  of  Oberlin  Theological  Sem- 
inary, to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your  invitation  to  participate  in  the 
celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Professor 
William  Henry  Green  as  an  Instructor  in  Princeton  Seminary. 

It  would  give  us  great  pleasure  to  be  represented  on  that  occasion, 
and  to  do  honor  to  one  so  eminent  for  his  services  to  Biblical  learning, 
but  the  distance  and  the  fact  that  our  own  anniversary  falls  in  the  same 
week  will  make  it  impossible. 

With  best  wishes  for  the  prosperity  of  the  Seminary,  believe  me, 
Fraternally  yours, 

W.  G.  Ballentine, 

President. 


PAYNE    THEOLOGICAL   SEMINARY. 

WlLBERFORCE,  O.,  April  28,   1896. 

Dear  Sir  : 

The  Faculty  of  Payne  Theological  Seminary  desire  to  acknowledge 
with  thanks  the  invitation  extended  them,  and  regret  to  reply  that,  owing 
to  the  absence  of  some  professors  and  the  consequent  arrangement  of 
work,  acceptance  is  not  possible.  They  would  offer  to  the  Faculty  of 
Princeton  Seminary  hearty  congratulations  and  assurances  of  high  esteem. 
Yours  most  sincerely, 

W.  L.  Scarborough, 

Secretary. 


DIVINITY    SCHOOL    OF    THE    PROTESTANT    EPISCOPAL 
CHURCH    IN    PHILADELPHIA. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.,  May  4,  1896. 
Reverend  and  Dear  Sir  : 

On  behalf  of  the  Faculty  of  this  divinity  school,  I  beg  leave  to  express 
our  thanks  for  the  courteous  invitation  to  attend  the  celebration  of  Pro- 
fessor Green's  anniversary  and  our  regrets  that  our  duties  here  will  not 
allow  any  of  us  to  be  present.  Not  only  are  all  our  lectures  still  in  course, 
but  also  our  Diocesan  Convention  is  to  be  in  session,  and  we  are  required 
to  attend  that.     We  join  with  all  the  Church  in  doing  honor  to  Dr.  Green's 


108  APPENDIX 

long  and  important  services  to  the  cause  of  sound  learning,  and  would  be 
glad  to  evince  our  interest  in  the  anniversary  by  personal  attendance,  if  it 
were  not  that  we  are  under  the  necessity  of  remaining  at  our  own  post  of 
duty.     With  sincere  fraternal  greeting,  I  am, 

Faithfully  yours, 

Edward  T.  Bartlett. 


THEOLOGICAL    SEMINARY     OF    THE     REFORMED     PRESBY- 
TERIAN CHURCH  AT  PHILADELPHIA. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.,  May  5,  1896. 

To  Professor  William  Henry  Green,  D.D.,  LL.D.  : 

The  undersigned,  members  of  the  Faculty  of  the  Theological  Seminary 
of  the  General  Synod  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church  in  North 
America,  organized  anno  Domini  1807,  and  located  in  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
take  pleasure  in  sending  their  congratulations  to  you  upon  the  occasion 
of  your  semi-centennial  as  Professor  of  Hebrew  and  Oriental  Literature 
in  Princeton  Theological  Seminary.  As  teachers  in  one  of  the  schools  of 
the  prophets  we  send  you  this  tribute  of  affection  and  respect,  recogniz- 
ing in  you  the  profound  thinker,  the  ripe  scholar,  and,  above  all,  the  peer- 
less defender  of  all  that  is  sacred  and  divine  in  the  origin,  unity,  inspira- 
tion, and  infallibility  of  the  Holy  Scriptures. 

David  Steele,  Professor  of  Doctrinal  Theology, 
MATTHEW    GAILEY,   Professor  of  Hebrew,    Old 

Testament  Literature  and  Church  History, 
James   Y.   Boice,  Professor  of  New   Testament 

Greek,  Homiletics  and  Pastoral  Theology. 


THE  DIVINITY  SCHOOL  OF  TUFTS  COLLEGE. 

Tufts  College,  Mass.,  March  25,  1896. 

Professor  Charles  H.  Leonard,  Dean  of  the  Divinity  School  of  this 
College,  thanks  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
the  United  States  for  the  kind  invitation  to  be  present  at  the  celebration 
of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Professor  William 
Henry  Green  as  an  Instructor  in  the  Seminary,  and  deeply  regrets  that  he 
cannot  be  present  on  an  occasion  when  a  great  school  honors  a  gifted  and 
faithful  teacher. 


APPENDIX  io9 


STILLMAN   INSTITUTE. 

Tuscaloosa,  Ala.,  April  7,  1896. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother  : 

Your  kind  invitation  to  the  Institute  for  Training  Colored  Ministers, 
now  Stillman  Institute,  to  attend  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appoint- 
ment of  Dr.  Green  as  an  Instructor  in  Princeton  Seminary  has  been  duly 
received.  We  highly  appreciate  the  honor  of  your  invitation,  but  circum- 
stances prevent  our  acceptance  of  it.  May  I  be  allowed  to  say  that,  in 
common  with  all  orthodox  Christians  throughout  the  world,  we  gladly ^en- 
ter into  the  spirit  of  this  occasion,  congratulating  the  venerable  and  holy 
Seminary  and  the  great  Professor  upon  this  golden  wedding,  and  praying 
that  they  may  still  bring  forth  fruit  in  their  old  age. 

Your  brother  in  Christ, 

A.  L.  Phillips, 

Superintendent. 


THE  SCHOOL  OF  THEOLOGY  OF  URSINUS  COLLEGE. 

COLLEGEVILLE,  PA.,  April  30,   1896. 

To  the  Faculty  of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary: 

Dear  Brethren:  The  Faculty  of  the  School  of  Theology  of  Ursulas 
College  desire  to  place  on  record  a  minute  of  their  high  appreciation  of  the 
labors  and  character  of  the  Rev.  Professor  William  Henry  Green  D  D., 
LL  D.,  of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  for  his  extensive  scholarship, 
his  noble  defence  of  the  old  faith  against  the  rationalistic  criticism  of  the 
Scriptures,  his  Christian  courtesy  to  his  opponents,  and  the  spirituality  of 
his  personal  influence  on  his  students.  They  congratulate  him  on  his  semi- 
centennial of  service,  and  pray  that  his  life  may  long  be  spared  to  con- 
tinue his  work  as  a  teacher  and  a  defender  of  the  truth.  They  regret 
that  owing  to  the  fact  that  the  public  examinations  and  commencement  of 
our 'School  of  Theology  take  place  on  Tuesday,  May  5th ,  they  are  not 
able  to  be  represented  at  the  semi-centennial  exercises  at  Princeton,  but 
assure  him  and  his  associates  in  the  Faculty  of  our  sincerest  sympathy 
and  heartiest  congratulations. 

James  I.  Good,  Dean  of  School  of  Theology, 
William  Hinke,  Instructor  in  Hebrew  and 
Old  Testament  Theology. 


no  APPENDIX 


WARTBURG   SEMINARY  OF  THE  EVANGELICAL    LUTHERAN 
SYNOD   OF    IOWA. 

Duhuque,  la.,  May  i,  1896. 
Seiner  Hochwurden, 

Herrn  Dr.  Th.  W.  H.  Green,  Princeton,  N.  J. 
Hochtuiirdiger  Herr  Doctor  :  Es  ist  mir  leider  versagt,  bei  Ihrer  Jubel- 
feier  am  5  May  in  Princeton  anwesend  zu  sein  und  Ihnen  meine  und 
meiner  Collegen  Segenswunsche  personlich  darzubringen.  Gestatten  Sie 
mir,  dies  wenigstens  mit  diesen  Zeilen  zu  thun.  Wir  verehren  in  Ihnen 
den  treuen  Zeugen,  der  in  einer  Zeit  zunehmenden  Abfalles  sich  nicht 
schamt,  zum  Worte  der  Offenbarung  sich  zu  bekennen  und  den  Reichthum 
seines  Wissens  und  die  Kraft  seines  Geistes  zur  Vertheidigung  des  alten 
Glaubens  wider  die  Blendwerke  der  falschberiihmten  modernen  Kritik 
und  Wissenschaft  verwendet.  Sie  sind  dadurch  zahllosen  Christenherzen 
— auch  unter  uns  Deutschen — zum  Segen  und  zur  Starkung  geworden. 
Darum  treibt  uns  auch  das  Herz,  an  Ihrem  Jubelfeste  dies  mit  innigem 
Danke  zu  bekennen  und  mit  alien  Ihren  Freunden  Gott  zu  preisen,  dass 
er  Ihnen  verliehen  hat  Ihr  gesegnetes  Wirken  so  lange  fort  zu  setzen.  Er 
sei  selber  Ihr  Lohn. 

In  tiefer  Verehrung. 

Sigmund  Fritschel,  D.D., 
Prdsident  des  ev.  lath.  Predigerseminars , 

Wartburg. 


WESTERN    THEOLOGICAL    SEMINARY    OF    THE    REFORMED 
(DUTCH)  CHURCH  IN  AMERICA. 

Holland,  Mich.,  April  10,  1896 
My  Dear  Brother  : 

I  am  requested  by  our  Theological  Faculty  to  acknowledge  the  receipt 
of  your  kind  invitation  to  attend  the  celebration  of  Professor  Green's  ap- 
pointment as  Instructor  in  your  Seminary.  We  desire  to  accept  it  with 
thanks,  although  our  distance  from  you  and  the  closing  exercises  of  our 
own  Seminary  year  will  probably  prevent  any  of  us  from  attending.  We 
rejoice  with  you  in  the  honored  position  of  Dr.  Green,  and  gladly  recog- 
nize the  debt  of  honor  due  him  for  his  steadfast  defence  of  the  Word  of 
God,  and  our  prayer  is  that  he  may  be  long  spared  to  you  and  to  us  alL 
Yours  very  truly  in  Christ, 

J.  W.  Beardslee, 

President  of  the  Faculty. 


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Hi 


RESOLUTIONS   ADOPTED    BY   THE   FACULTY   OF   XENIA 
THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY. 

Whereas,  The  Faculty  of  Xenia  Theological  Seminary  has  been  notified 
that  a  meeting  will  be  held  in  Princeton,  N.  J.,  in  celebration  of  the  ap- 
pointment of  Dr.  William  Henry  Green  to  be  a  Professor  in  the  Seminary 
of  that  place,  and  has  been,  moreover,  invited  to  be  present  on  the  occa- 
sion ;   and 

Whereas,  It  would  be  inconvenient  for  the  Faculty  as  a  whole,  or  for 
any  of  its  members,  to  attend  the  proposed  gathering;  and 

Whereas,  The  Faculty  is  unwilling  to  appear  indifferent  in  the  matter; 
therefore 

Resolved,  That  the  Faculty  of  the  oldest  Protestant  Theological  Semi- 
nary on  this  continent,  with  perhaps  one  exception  (New  Brunswick),  learns 
with  pleasure  that  Princeton  Seminary  proposes  to  honor  Dr.  Green  on 
the  occasion  of  the  completion  of  his  fiftieth  year  of  service  in  that  distin- 
guished institution  ; 

Resolved,  That  as  a  Faculty  we  rejoice  in  the  great  work  done  by 
Dr.  Green  as  an  Instructor  in  the  Seminary,  as  an  educator  through  the 
medium  of  his  unexcelled,  if,  indeed,  not  unequalled,  Hebrew  grammars, 
and  as  a  writer  in  defence  of  the  Word  of  God  against  subtle  attacks  made 
upon  it  in  the  name  of  scientific  criticism,  and  we  express  the  desire  that  for 
many  years  he  may  be  spared  to  wield,  as  in  the  past,  a  powerful  influence 
in  behalf  of  genuine  sacred  learning  and  in  vindication  of  the  cause  of 
truth. 

Resolved,  That  the  Faculty  highly  appreciates  the  honor  done  it  in 
the  invitation  received,  and  hereby  gratefully  acknowledges  the  courtesy 
shown. 

James  Harper, 

President. 

CENTRE  COLLEGE,  KENTUCKY. 

w     _         „  Danville,  Ky.,  March  30,  1806. 

My  Dear  Sir  :  y 

The  Faculty  of  Centre  College  express  through  me  their  regret  that 
Centre  College  cannot  be  present  at  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniver- 
sary of  the  appointment  of  Professor  William  Henry  Green  as  an  In- 
structor in  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  and  express,  also, 
their  sincerest  thanks  to  the  Seminary  for  their  kind  invitation. 

Hoping  that  the  celebration  will  be  delightful  in  every  sense,  I  remain, 
Very  respectfully  yours, 

Jno.  W.  Redd, 

Secretary  of  Faculty. 


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HAMILTON  COLLEGE. 


Clinton,  N.  Y.,  March  23,  1896. 

The  Faculty  of  Hamilton  College  present  their  respectful  congratula- 
tions to  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  upon  the  occasion  of  May  5th, 
and  rejoice  in  the  mature  and  historic  usefulness  of  the  careful  and  devout 
scholar,  who  is  the  Nestor  of  American  Hebraists. 

M.  WOOLSEY   STRYKER, 

President. 


SOUTHWESTERN  PRESBYTERIAN  UNIVERSITY. 

Clarkesville,  Tenn.,  April  6,  1896. 
Dear  Sir  : 

Please  express  to  your  Committee  my  hearty  thanks  for  the  invitation 
to  be  present  at  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  Dr.  Green's 
appointment  as  an  Instructor  in  Princeton  Seminary,  and  my  regret  that 
the  special  duties  which  will  be  upon  me  at  that  time  will  prevent  my  be- 
ing present.  I  regret  my  inability  to  attend  the  more  when  I  remember 
and  rejoice  that  fifty  years  of  Dr.  Green's  work  is  worth  a  hundred  and 
fifty  of  most  men's,  and  that  God  has  set  him  here  for  the  defence  of  the 
truth  just  at  a  time  when  such  a  man  was  most  needed  as  a  bulwark 
against  the  tide  of  destructive  criticism  which  is  arrogantly  trying  to  sweep 
everything  before  it.  May  Dr.  Green  be  given  many  more  years  to  bless 
the  Church  and  the  world. 

Yours  truly, 

George  Summey, 
Chancellor  and  Professor  of  Biblical  History. 


PRESBYTERIAN  COLLEGE,  HALIFAX,  NOVA  SCOTIA. 

Pine  Hill,  Halifax,  N.  S.,  April  2,  1896. 
Dear  Sir  : 

On  behalf  of  the  Faculty  of  our  College,  I  am  instructed  to  say  that  we 
are  grateful  for  the  invitation  to  attend  Dr.  Green's  Jubilee  and  that  we 
much  regret  that  we  shall  not  be  able  to  send  a  representative.  None  the 
less,  however,  do  we  wish  every  success  to  services  held  in  honor  of  a  name 
as  much  admired  and  revered  in  Canadian  as  in  American  churches. 

Sincerely  yours, 

John  Currie, 
Professor  of  Hebrew  and  Old  Testament  Exegesis  in  the  Presbyterian 
College,  Halifax,  N.  S. 


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KNOX  COLLEGE,  TORONTO,   CANADA. 

Toronto,  Can.,  April  17,  1896. 
To  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
the  United  States  of  America,  at  Princeton.  N.  f. 
Dear  Brethren :  The  Senate  of  Knox  College  returns  thanks  for 
your  kind  invitation  to  be  represented  at  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  an- 
niversary of  the  appointment  of  Professor  Green  as  an  Instructor  in  the 
Seminary  at  Princeton.  The  Senate  regrets  that  it  cannot  arrange  to 
send  one  of  its  members  to  Princeton  as  its  representative  on  so  interest- 
ing an  occasion,  but  it  requests  permission  to  express  its  high  appreciation 
of  the  character  and  attainments  of  the  distinguished  teacher  whose  fiftieth 
year  in  the  work  of  theological  tuition  is  being  commemorated  and  of  the 
services  which  he  has  been  honored  to  render  to  the  Presbyterian  Church 
and  the  Church  Universal. 

By  his  instructions  as  a  professor  and  by  his  writings  Dr.  Green  has 
proved  himself  one  of  the  ablest  and  most  successful  defenders  of  the 
truth  and  authority  of  the  Word  of  God  ;  and  in  an  age  when  eminent  the- 
ological scholarship  has  not  seldom  been  found  in  union  with  defective 
views  of  divine  truth,  or  has  even  led  the  way  in  depreciating  the  value  of 
Scripture,  Dr.  Green's  example  has  shown  that  the  highest  attainments  in 
Biblical  scholarship  have  no  necessary  connection  with  rationalistic  ten- 
dencies. The  Senate  desires  to  unite  with  many  in  thanksgiving  to  God  for 
bestowing  upon  His  servant  the  eminent  talents  and  the  grace  which  have 
mnde  him  during  his  long  course  as  a  teacher  a  powerful  and  judicious  de- 
fender of  the  true  doctrine  regarding  the  integrity  and  authority  of  the  In- 
spired Word.  We  desire  to  assure  Dr.  Green  of  the  esteem  and  honor 
with  which  he  is  regarded  by  the  Senate  and  the  Faculty  of  Knox  College 
and  of  the  Church  under  whose  care  the  College  is.  We  pray  that  he  may 
be  permitted  to  add  not  a  few  years  of  fruitful  service  to  the  fifty  which 
are  to-day  commemorated,  before  he  shall  receive  the  "  crown  of  right- 
eousness "  which  the  Lord  shall  give  to  those  who  "have  kept  the  faith" 
and  "  have  loved  His  appearing." 

In  the  name  of  the  Senate  of  Knox  College. 

Yours  with  highest  esteem, 

William  Caven. 

PRESBYTERIAN  COLLEGE,  MONTREAL,  CANADA. 

Montreal,  Can.,  May  1.  1806. 
My  Dear  Sir  : 

I   am   very  sorry  to  be   obliged  to  inform  you  that  I  find   it  now  im- 
possible to  have  the  pleasure  of  being  present   at    the  Rev.  Dr.  Green's 
Jubilee  celebration.     Allow  me  at  the  same  time  to  assure  you  that  as  a 
8 


U4  APPENDIX 

College  we  enter  most  heartily  into  the  spirit  that  has  prompted  the 
movement  to  do  honor  to  this  distinguished  servant  of  God  and  the 
Church.  In  common  with  multitudes  throughout  Christendom  we  thank- 
fully recognize  the  great  things  that  have  been  accomplished  for  the  cause 
of  truth  by  his  ripe  scholarship  and  talented  efforts.  Our  prayer  is  that 
God  may  yet  more  abundantly  bless  him  and  the  Seminary  with  which 
he  is  connected. 

Yours  very  truly, 

D.  H.  MacVicar, 

Principal. 


VICTORIA   UNIVERSITY,  TORONTO,   CANADA. 

Queens  Park,  Toronto,  Can. 

The  Faculty  of  Theology  in  Victoria  University,  Toronto,  beg  to  ac- 
knowledge with  thanks  the  kind  invitation  of  the  Theological  Seminary 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America  at  Princeton, 
N.  J.,  to  be  present  at  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of 
the  appointment  of  Professor  Green  as  Instructor  in  that  Seminary,  to 
express  regret  that  it  will  not  be  possible  for  any  member  of  our  Faculty 
to  be  present  on  that  occasion,  and  to  offer  our  sincere  congratulations 
both  to  Princeton  Seminary  and  to  Professor  Green  on  the  completion  of 
fifty  years  of  such  eminent  service  to  the  cause  of  theological  learning 
and  of  the  kingdom  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 


THE  THEOLOGICAL  COLLEGE  OF  THE  PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCH  OF  ENGLAND,  LONDON. 

Theological  College,  London,  Eng. 
Reverend  and  Dear  Sir  : 

I  am  honored  by  the  invitation  of  the  Theological  Seminary  that  I 
should  attend  the  Jubilee  of  Professor  Green's  connection  with  Princeton, 
to  be  held  on  May  5th.  Unfortunately,  the  date  is  in  any  case  an  im- 
possible one  for  me,  as  it  falls  too  near  the  meeting  of  our  Annual  Synod, 
from  which  this  year  I  could  not  well  absent  myself.  But  I  am  none  the 
less  grateful  for  the  compliment  which  our  sister  College  has  paid  to  the 
institution  over  which  I  preside  by  addressing  this  friendly  invitation  to 
me.  We  are  all  of  us  proud  to  associate  ourselves  in  spirit  with  the  fes- 
tivities by  which  Princeton  is  to  celebrate  the  life-long  services  of  one  of 
her   most   distinguished  teachers.     The    Senate  of  this  College  offers  to 


APPENDIX  115 

Professor  Green  through  you,  sir,  its  respectful  congratulations,  and  for  the 
famous  Seminary  which  he  has  so  long  adorned  we  wish  ever-increasing 
usefulness  and  fame  as  a  seal  of  Presbyterian  faith  and  sound  scholarship. 
Believe  me  to  be,  with  cordial  and  fraternal  salutations, 
Yours  most  sincerely, 

J.  Oswald  Dykes, 

Principal. 


KINGS  COLLEGE,   LONDON. 

Kings  College,  London,  Eng.,  March  2,  1896. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Wace,  Principal  of  Kings  College,  London,  returns  his 
hearty  thanks  for  the  invitation  with  which  he  has  been  honored  to  attend 
the  celebration  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  ap- 
pointment of  the  Rev.  Professor  William  Henry  Green,  D.D.  If  it  had 
been  possible  for  Dr.  Wace  to  be  present,  it  would  not  only  have  given 
him  the  greatest  pleasure,  but  he  would  have  regarded  it  as  a  duty  to  avail* 
himself  of  such  an  opportunity  for  testifying  his  gratitude  to  Dr.  Green  for 
the  invaluable  services  he  has  rendered  to  the  Church,  especially  during 
the  last  few  years,  in  vindicating  the  truth  of  the  Scriptures  of  the  Old 
Testament.  But  the  date  of  the  celebration  falls  in  the  middle  of  the 
academical  term  in  this  College,  when  it  is  impossible  for  Dr.  Wace  to  be 
so  long  absent  from  his  official  duties  as  would  be  required  by  a  visit  to 
America. 


THE   THEOLOGICAL   FACULTY   OF   THE   UNIVERSITY   OF 

OXFORD. 

Christ  Church,  Oxford,  Eng.,  March  2,  1896. 
Dear  Sir  : 

On  behalf  of  the  Theological  Faculty  of  the  University  of  Oxford,  I  have 
to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  an  invitation  to  be  present  at  Princeton  on 
the  occasion  of  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  Professor  W. 
H.  Green  as  a  teacher  in  the  Theological  Seminary,  but  must  express 
regret  that  none  of  us  will  be  able  to  avail  ourselves  of  it,  as  the  date 
fixed,  May  5th,  falls  in  the  very  midst  of  our  academical  term,  when  our 
duties  as  professors  and  lecturers  require  our  presence  here. 
I  am  yours  faithfully, 

William  Ince, 
Regius  Professor  of  Divinity,  Oxford. 


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FREE  CHURCH  COLLEGE,  ABERDEEN. 

April  3,  1896. 
Dear  Sir  : 

I  have  to  acknowledge  your  courtesy  in  sending  the  letter  of  invitation 
to  be  present  at  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appoint- 
ment of  Professor  William  Henry  Green  as  an  Instructor  in  Princeton 
Theological  Seminary.  I  regret  to  say  that  it  is  out  of  my  power,  as  is 
the  case,  also,  with  my  colleagues,  to  attend  on  the  interesting  occasion 
which  is  now  in  view.  It  would  have  been  a  peculiar  pleasure  to  me  to 
connect  a  visit  to  which  I  have  long  looked  forward,  but  have  not  as  yet  ac- 
complished, to  the  United  States  of  America,  with  a  celebration  so  remark- 
ably deserved.  As  this  cannot  be,  I  desire,  in  my  colleagues1  name  as 
well  as  my  own,  to  express  our  high  value  for  Professor  Green's  work 
and  our  satisfaction  that  it  is  to  be  recognized  in  this  way.  All  who  are 
interested  in  Old  Testament  studies,  however  they  may  differ  in  some 
things,  will  be  as  one  in  honoring  Professor  Green  and  in  appreciating  the 
important  contributions  he  has  made  to  scholarship.  He  is  one  from 
whom  all  can  learn  and  whose  fairness  of  mind  all  admire. 

We  rejoice  very  heartily  in  the  honor  done  him,  and  we  pray  that  the 
Seminary  with  which  he  has  been  so  long  connected  may  flourish  largely 
in  the  future,  as  it  has  done  in  the  past. 

I  am  yours  sincerely, 

S.  D.  F.  SALMOND. 


THE   FACULTY   OF   DIVINITY   OF   THE   UNIVERSITY   OF 
EDINBURGH. 

University  of  Edinburgh,  April  23,  1896. 

The  Faculty  of  Divinity  of  the  University  of  Edinburgh  have  delayed 
their  reply  to  the  invitation  of  the  Theological  Seminary,  Princeton,  N. 
J.,  in  the  hope  that  some  one  of  the  Faculty  might  be  able  to  represent 
them  at  Princeton  on  May  5th  next.  They  sincerely  regret  that  there  is 
now  no  prospect  of  this  hope  being  fulfilled,  but  they  appreciate  none  the 
less  the  consideration  and  cordiality  which  prompted  the  invitation.  They 
fully  reciprocate  these  sentiments,  and  tender  their  warm  thanks  to  the 
Theological  Seminary.  They  also  offer  their  very  respectful  congratula- 
tions and  best  wishes  to  Professor  Green,  whose  Jubilee  the  Seminary  is 
about  to  celebrate. 

M.  C.  Taylor, 
Dean  of  the  Faculty  of  Divinity. 


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NEW  COLLEGE,  EDINBURGH. 

To  Professor  William  Henry  Green,  D.D. 

Dear  and  Honored  Sir  :  In  common  with  your  many  friends  on  both 
sides  of  the  Atlantic,  the  professors  in  New  College,  Edinburgh,  beg  to 
congratulate  you  on  the  singular  distinction  of  attaining  your  fiftieth  anni- 
versary as  an  Instructor  in  the  Princeton  Seminary  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  United  States  of  America. 

Your  long  and  successful  labors  have  given  you  an  almost  unrivalled 
opportunity  of  influencing  the  large  body  of  students  for  the  ministry  who 
have  proceeded  from  your  class-room.  Your  well-known  works  and 
numerous  articles  in  the  department  of  sacred  literature,  so  assiduously 
cultivated  by  you,  have  extended  your  influence  to  a  still  larger  circle  of 
readers,  both  lay  and  clerical,  and  have  done  much  to  ripen  questions  of 
Old  Testament  scholarship.  You  have  taken  a  large  and  honorable  part 
in  the  discussion  of  these  questions — a  discussion  in  which  your  exact 
learning,  devout  spirit,  and  courtesy  as  a  controversialist  have  been  con- 
spicuous. 

This  is  not  the  first  time  we  in  Scotland  have  had  the  opportunity  of 
honoring  your  name.  We  recall  with  satisfaction  that  our  University  here 
in  Edinburgh,  at  its  tercentenary,  more  than  a  decade  ago,  conferred 
upon  you  the  well-merited  distinction  of  its  Doctorate  in  Divinity.  Now 
that  you  have  reached  the  rare  term  of  half  a  century's  labors  as  an  in- 
structor, we  avail  ourselves  of  this  renewed  occasion  to  express  our  sense 
of  the  valuable  services  you  have  been  graciously  spared  to  render  to  the 
Church  of  Christ  throughout  the  world,  and  to  join  in  the  prayer  that  you 
may  be  long  continued  to  extend  these  services. 
We  remain,  dear  sir,  yours  faithfully, 

A.  B.  Davidson, 

John  Laidlaw. 

Signed  in  our  name  and  those  of  our  colleagues: 

Principal^.  RAINY.  D.D., 
Professor  W.  G.  Blaikie,  D.D., 
Professor  John  Duns,  D.D., 
Professor  MARCUS  DODS,  D.D. 


THE   PRESBYTERIAN    COLLEGE   OF   EDINBURGH. 

Edinburgh,  March  31,  1896. 

The  Principal  and  Professors  of  the  United  Presbyterian  College,  Edin- 
burgh, desire  to  thank  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  United  States  of  America,  for  their  courtesy  in  inviting  them  to  the 


n8  APPENDIX 

celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Professor 
William  Henry  Green  to  office,  but  regret  that  none  of  them  are  able  to 
be  present  on  that  most  interesting  occasion. 

As  a  Senatus,  however,  they  tender  to  Professor  Green  and  to  the 
Seminary  of  which  he  is  so  distinguished  an  ornament,  their  heartiest  con- 
gratulations, and  rejoice  to  unite  thus  in  honoring  one  whose  lifelong  ser- 
vices in   the  cause  of  sacred  learning  are  recognized  in  Britain  no  less 

cordially  than  in  America. 

J.  A.  Patterson,  D.D., 

Clerk  of  Senatus. 


THE   THEOLOGICAL   COLLEGE   OF   THE   SCOTTISH 
EPISCOPAL   CHURCH,   EDINBURGH. 

Edinburgh,  April  21,  1896. 

The  Theological  College  of  the  Scottish  Episcopal  Church  is  grateful 
for  the  kind  invitation  of  the  Princeton  Presbyterian  Seminary,  and  regrets 
that  it  has  not  been  found  possible  to  send  a  representative  to  the  celebra- 
tion on  May  5th. 

SCOTTISH    CONGREGATIONAL   THEOLOGICAL    HALL,    EDIN- 
BURGH. 

Edinburgh,  April  6,  1896. 
My  Dear  Sir  : 

The  Committee  of  this  Institution  duly  received  your  letter  containing 
an  invitation  from  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
in  the  United  States  of  America,  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  to  be  represented  at 
the  Jubilee  celebration  of  the  venerable  Professor  W.  H.  Green.  While 
thanking  your  Committee  for  the  honor  of  this  invitation,  I  am  instructed 
to  express  the  regret  of  the  Committee  that  circumstances  prevent  us  from 
having  the  pleasure  of  accepting  it.  Trusting  that  the  celebration  will  be, 
in  all  respects,  most  successful, 

I  remain,  yours  faithfully, 

W.  Hope  Davison. 


FREE  CHURCH    COLLEGE,   GLASGOW. 

Free  Church  College,  Glasgow,  March  17,  1896. 

To  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
the  United  States  of  America,  at  Princeton,  N.  J. 
We,  the  Principal  and  Professors  of  the  Glasgow  College  of  the  Free 
Church  of  Scotland,  beg  to  acknowledge  the  kindness  of  the  Theological 


APPENDIX  119 

Seminary  at  Princeton  in  inviting  our  presence  at  the  celebration  of  the 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Professor  William  Henry 
Green  as  an  Instructor  in  the  Seminary  on  May  5th  next.  We  are  aware 
of  the  valuable  contributions  which  Professor  Green  has  made  to  the 
study  and  exposition  of  the  Scriptures  of  the  Old  Testament  ;  and  we 
desire  to  join  in  your  congratulations  and  expression  of  thankfulness  that 
he  has  been  spared  for  the  long  period  of  fifty  years  to  do  fruitful  service 
as  a  teacher  in  Princeton  Seminary.  We  trust  that  he  may  still  be 
enabled  to  continue  these  services  and  that  he  may  have  the  blessing  of 
God  on  himself  and  his  work.  We  would  also  express  our  high  esteem 
for  Princeton  Seminary  and  our  sense  of  the  good  work  which  it  has  done 
and  is  doing  for  the  cause  of  divine  truth  and  the  education  of  students 
for  the  ministry  of  the  Gospel.  We  remember  gratefully  the  help  and 
encouragement  which  it  gave  to  our  Church  in  her  contendings  for  the 
spirituality  and  freedom  of  the  Church  of  Christ,  and  we  pray  for  the 
Seminary,  its  teachers,  and  its  students  a  continuance  in  the  future  of  its 
honorable  career  of  usefulness.  One  of  our  number,  the  Rev.  George 
Adam  Smith,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Hebrew  and  Old  Testament  Exegesis  in 
this  College,  expects  to  be  in  America  at  the  time  of  the  celebration,  and,  if 
consistent  with  his  previously  formed  engagements,  will  have  pleasure  in 
attending  and  conveying  to  you  the  congratulations  and  good  wishes  in 
which  we  all  cordially  join. 

In  the  name  of  the  Principal  and  Professors  : 

James  S.  Candlish, 

Clerk  of  Senattts. 


THE  THEOLOGICAL  FACULTY  OF   THE  ALEXANDRIAN  UNI- 
VERSITY,   AT   HELSINGFORS,    FINLAND. 

Helsingfors,  Finland,  April  14,  1896. 

Reverend  and  Dear  Sir  : 

The  Theological  Faculty  of  the  Alexandrian  University  at  Helsingfors 
feel  very  much  obliged  for  the  invitation  received  to  be  present  at  the 
solemn  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Pro- 
fessor William  Henry  Green  as  an  Instructor  in  the  Theological  Seminary 
at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  and  return  their  most  respectful  thanks. 

The  Faculty,  who  would  have  felt  themselves  honored  in  taking  part 
through  a  delegate  in  a  celebration  of  so  rare  an  occurrence,  find  them- 
selves unable  to  do  so,  and  are  necessitated  to  present  herewith  their  most 
respectful  congratulations  both  to  the  aged  Professor  celebrating  his  Jubi- 
lee and  to  the  Theological  Seminary,  which  has  been  permitted  to  enjoy 
the  great  privilege  during  half  a  century  to  count  among  its  teachers  a  man 


120  APPENDIX 

so  highly  respected  for  the  scholarship  and  the  intrepid  courage  that  have 

characterized  Professor  William  Henry  Green. 

Invoking  the  blessing  of  the  Most  High  on  him  and  on  every  labor 

connected  with  the  Bible  in  the  service  of  divine  truth,  we  are,  reverend 

and  dear  sir, 

Yours  very  respectfully, 

K.  Aug.  R.  Totterman,  K.  A.  Appelber, 

S.  Edr.  Stenij,  G.  G.  Rosenqvist, 

O.  F.  COLLIANDER,  E.  JOHANSSON. 


FACULTE  DE  THEOLOGIE  PROTESTANTE  DE  PARIS. 

Paris,  le  10  Mars,  1896. 
Monsieur  et  honore  Collegue  : 

La  Faculte  a  recu  l'invitation  du  Seminaire  de  Princeton  a  assister  aux 
fetes  du  jubile  des  cinquante  ans  d'enseignement  de  M.  le  Professeur  W. 
H.  Green.  N'oubliant  pas  qu'un  de  ses  anciens  membres,  M.  Edouard 
Reuss,  a  professe  la  Theologie  pendant  cent-vingt  semestres,  elle  se  re- 
jouit  de  voir  egalement  une  longue  carriere  d'enseignement  accordee  a  un 
excellent  collegue.  Elle  lui  souhaite  l'heureux  continuation  de  son  min- 
istere  et  elle  est  heureuse  de  profiter  de  cette  occasion  pour  exprimer  aux 
professeurs  de  Princeton  sa  bien  cordiale  et  fraternelle  sympathie. 

La  Doyen  de  la  Faculte  : 

A.  Sabatier. 

THEOLOGICAL  FACULTY  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  BERLIN. 

Berlin,  den  9  Marz,  1896. 
Ew.  Hochwohlgeboren  : 

Verdanken  wir  die  freundliche  Einladung  zum  Jubilaum  des  Professor 
Green  bestens,  und  bedauern  durch  die  Entfernung  verhindert  zu  sein, 
uns  an  Ihrem  Feste  vertreten  zu  Iassen. 

Namens  der  theologischen  Fakultat  der  Friedrich  Wilhelm  Universitat 
zu  Berlin  : 

Schlatter, 
der  z.  Dekan. 

THE  EVANGELICAL  THEOLOGICAL  FACULTY  OF  BRESLAU. 

BRESLAU,  den  29  Marz,  1896. 
Dem   Theologischen  Seminar  der   Presbyterianischen  Kirche 
zu  Princeton  : 
Beehre  ich  mich  im  Auftrag  der  evangelisch-theologischen  Fakultat  zu 
Breslau  zu  der  bevorstehenden  Jubelfeier  unsre  Gluckwiinsche  zu  senden. 


APPENDIX  I21 

Wir  bedauern  dass  es  keinem  aus  unsrer  Mitte  moglich  ist,  der  freund- 
lichen  Einladung  zur  Theilnahme  an  Ihrer  Festfeier  Folge  zu  leisten. 
Dankbaren  Sinnes  gedenken  auch  wir  der  verdienstlichen  Arbeiten  des 
Jubilars  D.  D.  H.  W.  Green  auf  dem  Gebiete  der  hebraischen  Gmm- 
matik  und  der  alttestamentlichen  Wissenschaft,  und  wiinschen,  dass  seine 
und  des  ganzen  theologischen  Seminars  Wirksamkeit  reich  gesegnet  sein 
moge,  der  presbyterianischen  Kirche  theologisch  fest  gegrundete  und  wohl 
ausgeriistete  Diener  am  Wort  heranzubilden. 

In  hochachtungsvoller  Ergebenheit  : 

D.  Kawerau, 
Prof.  d.  Theol.,  d.  z.  Dekan. 

THE   THEOLOGICAL    FACULTY    OF   THE   UNIVERSITY   OF 

ERLANGEN. 

Erlangen,  den  5  Marz,  1896. 

An  das  theologische  Seminar  zu  Princeton  : 

Die  Einladung  zur  Theilnahme  an  der  Feier  des  sojahrigen  Amts- 
jubilaums  des  Professors  W.  H.  Green  am  5  Mai  a.  c.  hat  die  theologische 
Fakultat  zu  Erlangen  als  einen  freundlichen  Ausdruck  der  iiber  den  Ocean 
und  iiber  die  Schranken  der  Confessionskirchen  hinausreichenden  Gem- 
einschaft  christlicher  und  theologischer  Uberzeugungen  dankbar  in  Em- 
fang  genommen  und  wurde  sich  bei  dieser  seltenen  Feier  um  so  lieber 
personlich  vertreten  sehen,  als  sie  die  ernsten  Bemiihungen  des  Herrn  Jub- 
ilars um  die  Aufrechterhaltung  der  Wurde  des  Alten  Testaments  wohl  zu 
wiirdigen  weiss.  Der  giitigen  Eindladung  zu  folgen  ist  uns  jedoch,  abge- 
sehen  von  anderen  Schwierigkeiten,  schpn  dadurch  verwehrt,  das  wir 
zur  Zeit  der  beabsichtigten  Feier  durch  unsere  amtliche  Verpflichtung 
verhindert  sind,  unsere  Universitatsstadt  fur  mehrere  Wochen  zu  verlassen. 
Es  bleibt  uns  daher  nur  iibrig,  dem  theologischen  Seminar  und  seinem 
hochverdienten  Senior  zu  dem  Jubilaum  am  5  Mai  unsere  aufrichtigen 
Gluckwunsche  darzubringen  und  Gottes  Segen  zu  wiinschen. 
In  vorzuglicher  Hochachtung, 

D.  Th.  Zahn, 
d.  z.  Dekan  der  theologischen  Fakultat  zu  Erlangen. 

THE   THEOLOGICAL   FACULTY   OF   THE   UNIVERSITY   OF 

GIESSEN. 

Giessen,  den  30  Marz,  1896. 
Sehr  geehrter  Herr  : 

Ihrer  Einladung  zur  Feier  des  fiinfzigjahrigen  Jubilaums  des  Herrn  Dr. 
William  Henry  Green  am  5.  Mai  dieses  Jahres  vermag  die  Fakultat  zu 
Giessen  zu  ihrem  Bedauern  nicht  zu  entsprechen.    Die  Fakultat  hat  jedoch 


122  APPENDIX 

den  unterzeichneten  Dekan  beauftragt,  mit  dem  Danke  fur  die  Einladung 
Sie  zu  bitten,  in  ihrem  Namen  Herrn  Dr.  Green  die  herzlichsten  Gliickwiin- 
sche  zu  ubermitteln  und  zugleich  die  hohe  Schatzung  zum  Ausdruck  zu 
bringen,  die  sie  fiir  die  gelehrten  Arbeiten  des  Herrn  Jubilars  hegt, 
Mochte  Gott  dem  hochverdienten  Manne  noch  manches  Jahr  weiteren 
Schaffens  zulegen  und  mochte  das  Seminar  von  Princeton  sich  noch  lange 
seiner  Wirksamkeit  in  Segen  erfreuen  diirfen. 

In  vorziiglicher  Hochachtung  Ew.  Hochwiirden  ergebener, 

D.  Ferd.  Kattenbusch, 

Dekan  der  theologischen  Fakultdt. 


THE   THEOLOGICAL   FACULTY    OF   THE    UNIVERSITY   OF 

GOTTINGEN. 

GdTTlNGEN,  den  7  Marz,  1896. 
Geehrter  Herr  : 

Unsre  Fakultat  hat  die  freundliche  Einladung  zu  Ihrem  am  5ten  Mai 
stattfindenden  schonen  Feste  mit  bestem  Dank  empfangen.  Wenn  ihre 
Mitglieder  auch  ausser  Stande  sind,  Ihrer  Aufforderung  zu  entsprechen, 
da  zur  Zeit  Ihrer  Feier  unsre  Arbeitszeit  neu  begonnen  haben  wird,  so 
legen  wir  doch  Wert  darauf,  Ihnen  unsre  Theilnahme  an  dem  festlichen 
Tage  und  seiner  Veranlassung  auszudriicken,  und  bitten  Sie,  geehrter  Herr, 
Ihren  Herrn  Collegen  unsre  besten  Wunsche  freundlich  zu  ubermitteln. 
In  ausgezeichneter  Hochachtung. 

H.  Schultz,  Dr.  Th., 
Dekan  der  theologischen  Fakultdt  zu  Gottingen. 


THE   THEOLOGICAL   FACULTY    OF   THE   UNIVERSITY   OF 
GREIFSWALD. 

Greifswald,  den  22  April,  1896. 

EW.  HOCHWURDEN  : 

Werden  am  5ten  des  nachsten  Monats  den  fiinfzigsten  Jahrestag  Ihres 
Wirkens  am  Theologischen  Seminar  zu  Princeton  festlich  begehen.  Die 
Theologen  Greifswalds  schatzen  sich  gliicklich  Ihnen  zu  diesem  Ehrentage 
ihre  Gliickwiinsche  darbringen  zu  diirfen.  Sie  thun  dies,  indem  sie  mit 
froher  Theilnahme  vor  allem  des  reichen  Segens  gedenken,  der  wahrend 
der  verflossenen  fvinf  Jahrzehnte  unter  Ihrer  hervorragenden  Mitwirkung 
von  den  Lehrstiihlen  Princeton's  auf  Nordamerika's  evangelisch-theolo- 
gische  Jugend  ausgegangen  ist — eines  Segens,  von  welchem  wahrend  der 
letzten  Jahre  auch  an  unserer  hiesigen  Hochschule  manches  begeisterte 
Zeugnis  aus  dankbarem  jugendlichen  Munde  abgelegt  wurde.  Und  nicht 
minder  preir.en  wir  Gottes  Gnade    ob    der  Reihe  trefflicher,  vom  Geiste 


APPENDIX  123 

glaubensvoller  Wissenschaft  getragener  Beitrage  zur  gelehrten  Durch- 
forschung  der  alttestamentlichen  hi.  Schrift,  welche  wahrend  des  genann- 
ten  Zeitraums  von  Ew.  Hochwiirden  den  theologischen  Mitforschern  wie 
in  der  neuen  so  in  der  al,ten  Welt  gespendet  worden  sind. 

Wir  bitten  Gott  den  Herrn,  er  wolle  Sie  den  bevorstehenden  Gedenk- 
tag  als  einen  Tag  ungetriibter  Freude  inmitten  Ihrer  zahlreichen  Schiiler 
und  Verehrer  begehen  lassen  und  Sie  Ihrem  so  reich  gesegneten  Wir- 
kungskreise  noch  viele  Jahre  in  riistiger  Frische  und  Schaffenskraft  erhal- 
ten. 

Genehmigen  Sie,  hochgeehrter  Herr  College,  die  Versicherung  der  herz- 

lichen  und  freudigen  Theilnahme,  womit  wir,  als  im  Geiste  Ihnen  nahe, 

Sie  begriissen  und  begluckwiinschen. 

Ew.  Hochwiirden  verehrungsvoll  ergebene 

Theologische  Fakultat  der  Univ.  Greifswald  : 

Dr.  O.  Zockler, 

s.  Dek. 
Herrn  Professor  William  Henry  Green,  D.D.,  L.L.D., 

Princeton,  N.  J. 

THE   THEOLOGICAL   FACULTY   OF   THE   UNIVERSITY   OF 

HALLE. 

Halle,  a.  S.,  den  9  April,  1896. 
Hochgeehrter  Herr  : 

Am  2ten  Marz  a.  c.  ist  die  unterzeichnete  theologische  Fakultat  mit 
einer  Einladung  zur  Semisaecular-Feier  des  Herrn  Professor  Green  am 
5ten  Mai  dieses  Jahres  beehrt  worden. 

Wenn  es  uns  nun  auch  unmdglich  ist,  uns  an  dem  genannten  Tage — 
zwei  Wochen  nach  dem  Beginn  des  Somersemesters — personlich  durch  ein 
Mitglied  der  Fakultat  vertreten  zu  lassen,  so  mochten  wir  es  doch  nicht  an 
der  Y ersicherung  unseres  warmen  Anteils  an  diesem  Feste  fehlen  lassen 
und  richten  daher  an  Ew.  Hochwiirden  die  ergebenste  Bitte,  dem  hoch- 
verehrten  Herrn  Jubilar  an  seinem  Ehrentage  unsere  herzlichen  Gliick- 
und  Segenswiinsche  ubermitteln  zu  wollen. 

Im  Namen  und  Auftrag  der  theolog.  Fakultat  der  Univers.  Halle 
der  Dekan, 

D.  E.  Kautzsch. 

THE   THEOLOGICAL   FACULTY   OF   THE    UNIVERSITY   OF 

JENA. 

Jena,  den  25  Marz,  1896. 
Hochgeehrter  Herr  : 

Das  theologische  Seminar  der  Presbyterianischen  Kirche  in  den  Vere- 

inigten  Staaten  von  America  zu  Princeton,  N.  J.,    hat  der  theologischen 


124  APPENDIX 

Fakultat  zu  Jena  eine  hohe  Ehre  erwiesen  durch  die  giitige  Einladung  zu 
der  Feier  des  50  jahrigen  Amts-Jubilaums  der  Herrn  Professor  William 
Henry  Green  am  5  Mai  d.  Z.  Alle  Professoren  unserer  Fakultat  beauf- 
tragen  mich  als  den  zeitigen  Decan  dem  theologischen  Seminar  zu  Prince- 
ton den  herzlichsten  Dank  fur  diese  Einladung  auszudriicken.  Wir  miis- 
sen  aber  um  freundliche  Entschuldigung  dafiir  bitten,  das  wir  bei  bestem 
Willen  der  gutigen  Einladung  nicht  Folge  leisten  konnen.  Am  5  Mai 
sind  wir  alle  vollauf  beschaftigt  durch  akademische  Vorlesungen.  Bei 
mir  kommt  noch  hinzu,  dass  ich,  so  Gott  will,  am  25  Mai  d.  Z.  selbst  mein 
50  jahriges  Doctor-Jubilaum  feiern  werde.  Es  bleibt  mir  also  nur  ubrig, 
dem  wiirdigen  Herrn  Jubilar  im  Namen  meiner  Collegen  die  herzlichsten 
Gluckwiinsche  zu  der  Vollendung  eines  halben  Jahrhunderts  in  segen- 
reicher  Wirksamkeit  auszudriicken.  Gott  gebe,  dass  er  das  schone  Fest 
noch  lange  in  Gesundheit  des  Leibes  und  der  Seele  uberleben  moge. 
Hochachtungsvoll  und  ergebenst, 

Dr.  A.  Hitzenfeld, 
d.  z.  Dekan  der  thcol.  Fakultat. 


THE  THEOLOGICAL  FACULTY  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  OF 
KONIGSBERG. 

Viro  summe  reverendo  pientissimo  doctissimo 

GUILELMO  HENRICO  GREEN 

in  Seminario  Theologico  quod  Princetonii  floret  Professori 

Hebraistarum  Americanorum  Nestori  venerabilissimo 

de  studiis  Hebraicae  Grammatices  trans  Oceanum  promovendis  optime 

merito 
collegii  virorum  Angloamericanam  librorum  Veteris  Testamenti  versionem 

ad  textus  originalis  amussim  emendare  jussorum  praesidi 
Moysis  et  Pentateuchi  contra  criticorum  sententias  defensori  acri  strenuo 

impigro  qui 
Deo  Trino  favente 
propediem  muneris  sacra  semisaecularia  feliciter  acturus  est 
hunc  ipsum  solemnem  atque  laetum  diem 
ex  intimo  corde  congratulatur 
ordo  Theologorum  in  Universitate  Albertina  docentium 
Datum  Regiomonti  Prussorum  anno  post  natum  Redemptorem  nostrum 
MDCCCLXXXXVI  die  VIII  ante  Kalendas  Maias 
Cornill 
h.  a.  decanus. 


APPENDIX 


I25 


THE  THEOLOGICAL   FACULTY   OF   THE   UNIVERSITY   OF 

LEIPZIG. 

Leipzig,  Anfang  April,  1896. 

HOCHGEEHRTE    HERREN    COLLEGEN  : 

Sie  haben  die  Giite  gehabt  uns  mitzutheilen,  dass  Herr  Professor 
William  Henry  Green,  in  Princeton,  New  Jersey,  am  5ten  Mai  d.  J.  sein 
50  jahriges  Amtsjubilaum  begeht,  und  auch  uns  dazu  eingeladen. 

Wir  danken  aufrichtig  fur  die  Einladung  und  nehmen  an  Ihrer  Ehren- 
Feier  aufrichtigen  Anted.  Leider  verbieten  uns  die  Entfernung  und 
amtlich  die  Zeitlage  des  Semesters  der  Einladung  personlich  Folge  zu 
leisten.  Aber  wir  begrussen  mit  unseren  Segenswiinschen  gleichfalls 
die  seltene  Jubelfeier  eines  Lebens,  welches  durch  rastlose  Thatigkeit 
und  grundliche  Gelehrsamkeit  in  einen  Umkreis  alttestamentlicher  Ar- 
beiten  eingegriffen  hat,  die  grade  in  den  letzten  Jahrzehnten  und  noch 
fortgehend  die  Wissenschaft  und  Kirche  auf  das  Tiefste  bewegen,  und 
nur  allmalig  geklart  und  ausgetragen  werden  konnen.  Jede  gediegene 
Mitarbeit  ist  hier  mit  Dank  zu  begrussen.  Auch  wir  bringen  diesen  Dank 
und  diese  Anerkennung  dem  Herrn  Jnbilar  und  den  evangelischen  Briidern 
Nordamerikas,  und  bitten  diese  Gesinnung  auch  unsererseitsam  Jubeltage 
selbst  zum  Ausdrucke  bringen  zu  uollen. 

Moge  der  Herr  noch  manches  Jahr  dem  verehrten  Manne  und  dadurch 
auch  der  Wissenschaft  schcnken,  der  er  mit  treuem  Gewissen  und  sorgfal- 
tigem  Forschen  sein  Leben  hindurch  hat  dienen  wollen. 

Mit  den  Grussen  collegialischer  Verehrung  und  Ergebenheit. 
Die  theologische  Fakultat  : 

Dr.  G.  A.  Fkicke, 
d.  z.  Dekan  der  theol.  Fakultat. 


THE  THEOLOGICAL  FACULTY  OF  THE   UNIVERSITY  OF 
MARBURG. 

Marburg,  den  n  Marz,  1896. 

Fur  die  sehr  gefallige  Einladung  auf  den  5ten  Mai  d.  J.  zur  Feier  des 
Jahrestages  der  Ernennung  des  Professor  William  Henry  Green  als 
Lehrer  an  dem  Seminar  zu  Princeton  vor  funfzig  Jahren  sagen  wir  dem 
Theologischen  Seminar  unseren  verbindlichen  Dank.  Zu  unserem  Be- 
dauern  ist  Keiner  von  uns  im  Stande,  an  der  Feier  personlich  Theil  zu 
nehmen.  Wir  sprechen  aber  zu  derselben  unsere  herzlichsten  Gliick- 
wiinsche  aus  im  freudigen  Bewusstsein  der  vielfachen  Wechselbeziehun- 
gen,  die  zwischen  dem  Theologischen  Studium  in  Amerika  und  bei  uns 


126  APPENDIX 

bestehen.  Wir  erinnern  uns  gerne  der  jungen  Theologen  aus  Amerika, 
die  auch  unsere  Fakultat  von  Zeit  zu  Zeit  besucht  haben.  Wir  hoffen, 
dass  zu  unserer  beiderseitigen  Ftirderung  in  christlicher  Gemeinschaft 
und  in  theologischer  Arbeit  die  freundlichen  Beziehungen  zwischen  Ihrer 
theologischen  Schule  und  der  unsrigen  dauernd  fortbestehen  werden. 

Graf  Baudissin, 

d.  z.  Dekan. 

An  The  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United 
States  of  America,  at  Princeton,  N.  J. 


THE  THEOLOGICAL  FACULTY  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  OF 

MUNICH 

Send  their  best  respects  and  congratulations  to  the  Theological  Semi- 
nary of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America,  at 
Princeton,  N.  J.,  on  account  of  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary 
of  the  appointment  of  Professor  William  Henry  Green  as  an  Instructor  in 
the  Seminary.     By 

Professor  Dr.  T.  Bach, 


March  15,  1S96. 


The  present  Dean. 


THE   THEOLOGICAL    FACULTY   OF   THE   UNIVERSITY   OF 
STRASSBURG. 

Strassburg  (Elsass),  den  29  Marz,  1896. 

Dem  Theologischen  Seminar  der  Presbyterianischen  Kirche 
zu  Princeton  : 
Sagt  der  Unterzeichnete  Namens  seiner  Fakultat  den  verbindlichsten 
Dank  fur  die  gutige  Einladung,  die  ihr  zu  Teil  geworden,  und  verbindet 
damit  die  herzlichsten  Griisse  und  GlQckwiinsche  fur  die  Anstalt  und  ihre 
Lehrkrafte.  Mogen  diese  diirftigen  Zeilen  weil  sie  aus  der  Stadt  Bucers 
und  Calvins  kommen  in  Ihren  Augen  einen  Werth  gewinnen,  den  ihnen 
unsre  Namen  zu  geben  ausser  Stande  sind. 

Der  Dekan  der  theologischen  Fakultat  an  der  Kaiser  Wilhelms-Uni- 
versitat. 

D.  Julius  Smend, 
p.p.  0. 


APPENDIX  127 

THE    EVANGELICAL   FACULTY    OF    THE    UNIVERSITY    OF 

TUBINGEN. 

Tubingen,  den  9  April,  1896. 
Dem  theologischen  Seminar  zu  Princeton,  New  Jersey,  sendet  die  evan- 
gelisch-theologische  Fakultat  der  Universitat  Tubingen  zu  seiner  50  jahrigen 
Jubelfeier  die  aufrichtigsten  Gluck-und  Segenswunsche. 

Im  Namen  der  Fakultat  der  derzeitige  Dekan  derselben  : 

Paul  Buder, 
Professor  Dr.  Theol. 

THE   THEOLOGICAL   FACULTY    OF   THE   UNIVERSITY    OF 
GRONTNGEN,    HOLLAND. 

Groningen,  March  10,  1896. 
The  Theological  Faculty  of  the  University  of  Groningen  is,  to  its  re- 
gret, prevented  from  accepting  the  courteous  invitation  of  the  Theological 
Seminary  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America,  at 

Princeton,  N.  J. 

C.  H.  DeRhvn, 

Secretary. 

THE   THEOLOGICAL   FACULTY    OF    THE   UNIVERSITY    OF 

LEIDEN. 

Leiden,  March  15,  1896. 
The  Theological  Faculty  of  the  University  of  Leiden  regret  to  be  pre- 
vented from  sending  a  representative  at  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth 
anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Professor  William  Henry  Green  as  an 
Instructor  in  the  Seminary  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United 
States  of  America,  at  Princeton,  N.  J. 

W.  N.  Kosters, 
Secretary  of  the  Theological  Faculty. 

THE   THEOLOGICAL  FACULTY   OF    THE  UNIVERSITY    OF 

UTRECHT. 

Utrecht,  March  6,  1896. 
Dear  Sir  : 

The  Theological  Faculty  of  the  University  of  Utrecht  regret  the  im- 
possibility of  assisting  at  the  Jubilee  of  Professor  William  Henry  Green. 

The  Faculty  feel  much  honored  by  your  kind  invitation  and  send  you 


128  APPENDIX 

their  sincere  congratulations  on  the  privilege  of  having  Professor  Green  so 
long  a  time  as  an  Instructor  in  your  Seminary.     The  Faculty  also  beg  you 
to  express  their  congratulations  to  Professor  Green  himself. 
Respectfully  yours, 

T.  H.  Valeton, 

President  of  the  Faculty. 


THE   THEOLOGICAL   FACULTY    OF   THE    UNIVERSITY    OF 

NORWAY. 

Kristiania,  Norge,  March  26,  1896. 
Dear  Sir  : 

On  behalf  of  the  Theological  Faculty  of  the  University  of  Norway,  I 

feel  obliged  to  return  our  deep-felt  and  most  respectful  thanks  for  your 

highly  valued  and  esteemed  invitation  to  the  Jubilee  of  Professor  Green, 

and  regret  very  much  that  the  Faculty,  on  account  of  work  and  the  long 

voyage,  cannot  have  the  pleasure  of  accepting  the  invitation.     We  beg 

you  kindly  to  give  our  most  respectful  compliments  to  Professor  Green, 

and  we  pray  that  the  blessings  of  our  Heavenly  Father  may  rest  upon  him, 

and  that  he  may  be  spared  yet  longer  for  his  blessed  work  for  the  Church. 

Yours  in  Christ  sincerely, 

Dr.  Sigurd  Odland, 

Professor  Theologice. 


THE   THEOLOGICAL   FACULTY   OF    THE    UNIVERSITY    OF 
COIMBRA,  PORTUGAL. 

CoiMBRA,  13  de  Marco  de  1896. 
A  Faculdade  de  Theologia  da  Universidade  de  Coimbra  muito  agra- 
dece  0  vosso  amavel  convite.  A  longo  distancia  que  separa  esta  Univer- 
sidade do  Seminario  theologico  da  egreja  presbyteriana  dos  Estados  Unidos 
e  o  servico  das  aulas,  que  nao  pode  ser  interrompido,  sao  motivos  poder- 
osos  que  obstam  a  que  a  Faculdade  de  Theologia  possa  ser  representada 
nas  festas  com  que  o  vosso  Seminario  vae  celebrar  o  quinquagesimo  anni- 
versario  da  nomeacao  do  professor  William  Henry  Geeen. 

Dr.  Luiz  Maria  da  Silva  Ramos, 

Decano  da  Faculdade  de  Theologia. 


APPENDIX  129 

THE   CATHOLIC   THEOLOGICAL    FACULTY    OF    BERN, 
SWITZERLAND. 

Bern,  den  13  Marz,  1896. 

Sie  hatten,  geehrter  Herr,  die  Giite,  unserer  Fakultat  eine  Einladung 
des  Theologischen  Seminars  zu  Princeton  zur  Feier  des  fiinfzigjahrigen 
Jubilaums  des  Herrn  Professors  W.  H.  Green  zu  ubersenden.  Zu  unserm 
Bedauern  verbietet  uns  die  weite  Entfernung  durch  personliche  Abord- 
nung  eines  unserer  Mitglieder  uns  an  dieser  Feier  zu  beteiligen.  Empfan- 
gen  Sie  daher  auf  diesem  Wege  die  Gluckwunsche  unserer  Fakultat  zu 
einem  so  seltenen  Feste  fiir  den  ehrwiirdigen  Gefeierter  und  fiir  das  Semi- 
nar. 

Mogen  die  Arbeiten  Ihrer  Anstalt  auch  fernerhin  von  reichem  Gottes- 
segen  begleitet  sein!  Genehmigen  Sie,  geehrter  Herr,  die  Versicherung 
unserer  ausgezeichneten  Hoehachtung  ! 

Die  Katholisch-theologische  Fakultat  der  Hochschule  Bern. 

Dr.  Adolph  Thurlings, 
Dekan . 

THE   THEOLOGICAL   FACULTY   OF   THE   UNIVERSITY   OF 

GENEVA. 

Geneve,  le  2  avril,  1896. 

Monsieur  : 

C'est  avec  un  vif  regret  que  je  dois  vous  annoncer  qu'aucun  profes- 
seur  de  notre  Faculte  ne  pourra  se  rendre  a  Princeton  pour  la  fete  qui  sera 
donnee  en  l'honneur  de  Monsieur  le  professeur  William  Henry  Green. 
Mais  nous  serons  avec  lui  de  coeur  et  de  priere  ce  jour-la,  et  nous  vous  re- 
mercions  chaleureusement  de  l'invitation  que  vous  avez  eu  l'aimable  atten- 
tion de  nous  adresser  et  que  la  distance  nous  empeche  d'accepter. 
Votre  respectueusement  devoue, 

J.  M.  COUGNARD, 

Doyen. 

THE   THEOLOGICAL   FACULTY   OF   THE   UNIVERSITY    OF 

LAUSANNE. 

Lausanne,  le  30  avril,  1896. 
Monsieur  et  honors'  fr£re  en  Jesus-Christ  : 

II  est  bien  tard  pour  venir,  au  nom  de  la  faculte  de  theologie  de  l'Uni- 
versite  de  Lausanne,  vous  remercier  cordialement  de  l'invitation  que  vous 
nous  avez  adresse,  il  y  a  quelques  semaines,  pour  participer  au  jubile  cin- 
9 


130  APPENDIX 

quantenaire  de  l'enseigment  de  monsieur  le  professeur  William  Henry 
Green  au  seminaire  theologique  de  Princeton.  Professeurs  d'une  faculte 
de  theologie  se  rattachant  a  une  Eglise  presbyterienne  comme  la  votre, 
nous  eussions  aime  pouvoir  apporter  en  personne  nos  felicitations  et  nos 
voeux  a  l'eminent  professeur  dont  vous  fetez  le  jubile,  et  profiter  de  cette 
occasion  pour  lier,  avec  les  professeurs  de  votre  illustre  faculte  de  theo- 
logie, des  rapports  personnels.  Vous  comprendrez  facilement,  monsieur, 
en  presence  de  la  grande  distance  qui  nous  separe,  l'impossibilite  ou  nous 
sommes  de  realiser  ce  desir,  et  vous  excuserez  par  consequent  aisement 
notre  absence  a  Princeton  le  cinq  mai. 

Par  contre  nous  tenons  a  vous  assurer  qu'en  ce  jour-la  nous  serons  de 
cceur  et  d'esprit  avec  vous.  Avec  vous,  nous  rendrons  grace  a  Dieu  pour 
les  longs  et  loyaux  services  qui  a  rendus  a  votre  Eglise  M.  le  professeur 
Green  dans  l'etude  de  la  Bible  et  specialment  de  l'Ancien  Testament. 
Avec  vous,  nous  demanderons  a  Dieu  de  lui  conserver  aussi  longtemps 
que  possible  force  spirituelle  et  physique  pour  continuer  sa  tache.  En 
vous  priant,  monsieur  et  honore  frere,  de  bien  vouloir  transmettre  au  ju- 
bilaire  l'expression  de  nos  felicitations  et  de  nos  meilleurs  soutraits,  je 
tiens  a  ajouter  que  notre  faculte  fait  les  meilleurs  voeux  pour  la  prosper- 
ity du  seminaire  theologique  de  Princeton.  Puisse-t-il,  pendant  de  longues 
annees,  fournir  a  TEglise  de  Jesus-Christ,  des  hommes  sachant  unir 
l'amour  de  la  verite  a  la  chaleur  de  la  piete. 

C'est  dans  ces  sentiments  de  cordial  interet  pour  votre  faculte  et  votre 
Eglise  et  de  chretienne  affection  pour  ses  professeurs  et  ses  etudiants, 
que  je  vous  prie,  monsieur  et  honore  frere,  d'agreer  l'expression  de  mes 
sentiments  fraternels. 

Au  nom  de  la  faculte  de  theologie  le  doyen  : 

Louis  Emery. 


THE   THEOLOGICAL   FACULTY    OF   THE   UNIVERSITY    OF 

ZURICH. 

Zurich,  den  13  Marz,  1896. 
An  Herrn  William  Henry  Green,  D.D. 

Hochgeehrtcr  Herr  :  Zu  der  seltenen  Feier  der  fiinfzigjahrigen  Amts- 
thatigkeit  als  theologischer  Dozent,  die  Sie,  hochgeehrter  Herr,  am  5ten 
Mai  dieses  Jahres  begehen,  bringen  wir  Ihnen  unsere  herzlichen  Gliick- 
wiinsche  dar. 

Es  ist  Ihnen  vergonnt  gewesen,  wahrend  der  langen  Zeit  von  5  Jahr- 
zehnten  Ihre  Krafte  in  den  Dienst  des  Reiches  Gottes  zu  stellen  und  zu 
seiner  Ehre  zu  wirken.  Sie  haben  durchdrungen  von  dem  hohen  Ernst 
der  Wissenschaft  und  der  Verantwortlichkeit,  die  jedem  akademischen 
Lehrer,  vor  mella   aber  den  Vertretern  der  theologischen  Wissenschaft 


APPENDIX  I31 

auferlegt  ist,  mit  hingebenster  Gewissenhaftigkeit  und  Treue,  mit  tief 
eindringender  Gelehrsamkeit  und  Sachkenntniss  selbst  nach  dem  gerungen 
was  Wahrheit  ist,  und  Sie  haben  auch  die  wissenschaftlichen  Arbeiten  und 
Bestrebungen  Anderer  mit  Scharfsinn  und  milder  Objectivitat  gepriift, 
ihre  Wahrheitsmomente  gern  und  freudig  anerkannt  und  gegeniiber  ab- 
weichenden  Anschauungen  die  eigene  Uberzeugung  mit  edelm  Ernste 
geltend  gemacht.  Im  solchem  Geiste  haben  Sie  mit  unablassigem  Eifer 
die  europaische  Wissenschaft  nach  der  neuen  Welt  verpflanzen  helfen  und 
haben  in  Ihren  Schiilern  den  Grund  gelegt,  der  sie  zu  selbstandigen  wis- 
senschaftlichen Streben  und  zu  griindlicher  eigener  Forschung  befahigte. 
Alles  diess  hat  Ihnen  uberall  da,  wo  wissenschaftlicher  Forschungseifer, " 
Treue  in  der  Berufsthatigkeit  und  charactervolles  Eintreten  fiir  die  eigene 
Uberzeugung  etvvas  gelten,  Achtung  und  Verehrung  erworben,  und  ins- 
besondere  die  Mitarbeiter  der  theologischen  Wissenschaft  schulden  Ihnen, 
auch  wenn  sie  mit  den  Ausgangspuncten  oder  den  Ergebnissen  Ihrer 
Forscherthatigkeit  nicht  iibereinstimmen,  den  warmsten  Dank  und  die 
grbsste  Anerkennung  fiir  den  hohen  Ernst  Hirer  Arbeit. 

Um  des  Segens  willen,  in  solcher  Weise  wirken  zu  konnen,  und  um 
des  Segens  willen  der  von  dieser  Wirksamkeit  ausgegangen  ist,  wo  fur  wir 
mit  Ihnen  Gott  die  Ehre  geben,  begluckwunscht  Sie,  hochverehrter  Herr 
College, 

Die  theologische  Fakultat  der  Universitat  Zurich  (Schweiz). 
In  deren  namen, 

Prof,  von  Schulthess  Rechberg, 

Der  Dekan. 


THE   THEOLOGICAL   FACULTY   OF   THE   UNIVERSITY   OF 
UPSALA,  SWEDEN. 
Dear  Sir  : 

The  Theological  Faculty  at  Upsala  have  with  great  pleasure  received 
your  invitation  to  send  a  member  of  the  Faculty  to  assist  at  the  celebration 
of  the  illustrious  Professor  Green's  anniversary,  but  we  deplore  the  impossi- 
bility of  being  able  to  accept  your  kind  and  honorable  request  on  account 
of  our  present  session,  which  continues  till  the  end  of  May,  and  during 
which  time  all  of  us  are  strictly  at  work. 

Yours  most  respectfully, 

Professor  Carl  Morrby,  D.D., 

Decanus. 


LETTERS  OF  REGRET  FROM  INDIVIDUALS. 

Rev.  William  Alexander,  D.D.,  Professor  in  San  Francisco  Theological 

Seminary. 

I  regret  exceedingly  that  it  will  be  impossible  for  me  to  be  present  with 
you  in  honoring  Dr.  Green.  No  one  is  more  deserving  of  honor  than  he 
is.  Fifty  years  of  continuous  service,  and  especially  such  service  as  he 
has  rendered,  is  of  rare  occurrence.  Although  there  have  been  several 
others  who  are  good  seconds,  yet  Dr.  Green  has  for  a  number  of  years 
been  facile  princeps  in  his  own  department.  With  ample  learning  and 
scholarship  of  the  first  rank,  he  has  for  years  stood  forth  as  the  Coryphaeus 
of  orthodoxy  in  defence  of  the  integrity  of  the  Bible  against  the  assaults  of 
the  destructive  rationalistic  criticism.  I  count  it  among  the  fortunate 
incidents  of  my  life  to  have  sat  at  the  feet  of  such  a  man,  and  as  I  cannot 
be  present,  I  gladly  contribute  my  mite  in  this  way.  Please  to  assure  Dr. 
Green  of  my  continued  love  and  veneration. 

Rev.  Wm.  M.  Blackburn,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President  of  Pierre  University. 

In  expressing  thanks  for  the  invitation  to  attend  the  celebration  in 
honor  of  Dr.  W.  H.  Green  and  my  regrets  that  I  shall  not  be  able  to  be 
present,  permit  me  to  say  that  one  of  my  very  strong  convictions  as  a 
student  in  his  classes,  from  1851  to  1854,  was  that  he  was  especially  "  set 
for  the  defence  "  of  the  Old  Testament  literature  ;  and  from  that  time  to 
the  present  I  have  had  such  confidence  in  his  judgment  on  all  questions 
concerning  it  that  I  have  rested  in  his  decisions.  While  his  scholarship 
and  instructions  have  extended  over  still  broader  ground,  his  greatest 
work  thus  far  seems  to  have  been  in  making  more  clear  to  this  age  the  his- 
torical foundations  of  all  Biblical  literature,  and  consequently  of  faith  in 
divine  revelation  through  Sacred  Scripture.  This  work  is  worthy  of  recog- 
nition by  the  celebration  proposed. 

Rev.  S.  F.  Breckinridge,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Exegetical  Theology  in  the 
Theological  Seminary  of  Wittenberg  College,  Springfield,  O. 

The  invitation  of  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
in  the  United  States  of  America,  Princeton,  N.  J.,  to  be  present  at  the 


APPENDIX  133 

celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Professor 
William  Henry  Green  as  an  Instructor  in  the  Seminary  has  come  to  my 
hand.  Although  I  have  not  the  honor  of  a  personal  acquaintance  with 
Professor  Green,  I  have  used  for  so  many  years  his  thorough-going  and 
practical  text-books  of  the  Hebrew  language  and  literature,  and,  I  may 
add,  with  so  much  satisfaction  and  efficiency,  in  the  class-room,  that  I 
sometimes  imagine  that  I  am  well  acquainted  with  him.  At  all  events, 
the  service  which  he  has  done  for  the  Church  at  large  by  the  preparation 
of  these  books,  by  his  scholarly  defence  of  the  Bible  as  the  Word  of  God, 
by  his  trenchant  criticism  of  unfounded  assumption,  and  the  telling  expos- 
ure of  the  plausible  fallacies  of  its  assailants,  as  well  as  by  his  eminent 
services  in  the  lecture-room,  he  has  won  the  lasting  regard  and  gratitude 
of  all  the  friends  of  the  Church  of  our  Redeemer.  Pressing  engagements 
will  prevent  my  being  present  at  the  festive  occasion  to  which  I  have  been 
so  kindly  invited.  Please  convey  to  this  honored  servant  of  God  assur- 
ances of  my  personal  esteem  and  of  my  appreciation  of  his  invaluable 
service  to  the  cause  of  sound  scholarship  and  orthodox  Christianity. 


Rev.  G.  Stockton  Burroughs,  D.D.,  President  of  Wabash  College. 

My  Dear  Dr.  Green  : 

I  appreciate  very  highly  the  honor  of  being  selected  to  say  a  few  words, 
as  a  pupil  of  yours,  on  the  occasion  of  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anni- 
versary of  the  commencement  of  your  work  in  connection  with  Princeton 
Seminary.  It  was  with  profound  regret  and  a  sense  of  personal  loss 
that  I  found  it  impossible  to  be  present,  and  was  obliged  to  so  write  Dr. 
Warfield.  It  would  have  been  a  great  privilege  to  have  striven  to  give  to 
others  some  share  in  the  pleasing  and  profitable  memories  of  the  time 
spent  in  your  class-room  under  your  instruction.  Nor  are  my  memories 
confined  to  the  class-room.  It  is  the  general  impression  which  you  made 
upon  me,  as  scholar  and  man,  out  of  the  class-room  as  well  as  in  it,  that 
has  been  of  especial  benefit.  I  recall  your  conference  talks  on  Sabbath 
afternoons,  your  sermons,  the  helpful  personal  interviews,  characterized  by 
kindly  interest  and  wise  counsel,  as  combining  with  your  instruction  to 
make  my  stay  in  the  Seminary  worth  so  much  then  and  its  influence  since 
so  helpful.  It  was,  I  believe,  the  background  of  these  things  which  made 
the  instruction  so  potent  for  good.  You  will  permit  me  to  thus  send  you  my 
personal  congratulations  and  the  expression  of  my  high  regard  and  hearty 
thanks  for  personal  benefits.  You  cannot  know  all  that  you  have  done 
for  the  large  number  whom  you  have  touched  with  the  influence  of  your 
life,  but  I  am  sure  that  the  little  which  can  be  expressed  to  you  will  en- 
able you  to  join  with  your  many  pupils  in  gratitude  to  our  Heavenly 
Father  for  His  especial  kindness  to  you,  and  through  you  to  them  and  the 
cause  of  Christian  learning. 


134  APPENDIX 

Rev.  Edward  L.  Curtis,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Hebrew  Language  and  Litera- 
ture in  Yale  University  Divinity  School. 

Allow  me  to  present  my  thanks  for  the  invitation  to  be  present  at  the 
celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Professor  Will- 
iam Henry  Green  as  an  Instructor  in  the  Princeton  Seminary  and  my  regrets 
that  I  am  unable  to  accept  it.  While  I  have  never  had  the  privilege  of 
the  personal  instruction  of  Professor  Green,  I  take  pleasure  in  acknowledg- 
ing an  indebtedness  to  him,  which  all  Old  Testament  students  must  feel. 
In  America,  if  not  in  the  world,  he  is  facile  princeps  in  expounding  and  de- 
fending the  sacred  Scriptures  of  the  old  covenant  upon  the  lines  of  the 
traditional  views  of  the  Christian  Church,  and  however  much  some  of  us 
may  feel,  in  certain  particulars,  compelled  to  differ  with  him  in  opinion,  it 
is  a  delight  to  honor  one  who  in  solid  learning,  judicial  fairness,  and 
Christian  courtesy  has  been  surpassed  by  none  in  these  days  of  contro- 
versy over  the  nature  of  the  Bible. 


Rev.  George  E.  Day,  D.D.,  Dean  of  the  Theological  Faculty  of  Yale  Uni- 
versity. 

I  cannot  promise  to  myself  the  pleasure  of  being  present  at  the  cele- 
bration in  honor  of  my  esteemed  friend,  Professor  Green,  but  beg  you  to 
convey  to  him  personally  the  assurance  of  my  interest  in  the  proposed  ex- 
pression of  appreciation  of  his  work  in  the  Seminary,  the  revision  of  the 
English  version  of  the  Old  Testament,  and  his  various  contributions  to 
Hebrew  learning  and  literature. 


Rev.  Francis  B.  Denio,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Old  Testament  Language  and 
Literature  in  Bangor  Theological  Seminary. 

Professor  W.  H.  Green,  D.D. 

Reverend  and  Respected  Sir:  Permit  me  to  congratulate  you  on  your 
completion  of  half  a  century  of  service  in  the  work  of  giving  instruction  in 
sacred  literature  in  the  Seminary  which  you  have  served  and  honored. 
I  congratulate  you  on  the  fruitfulness  of  these  years  of  service,  both 
through  your  pupils  and  through  the  medium  of  the  press.  I  wish,  also,  to 
express  my  thankfulness  that  you  have  been  able  to  publish  so  much 
which  has  been  of  use  in  correcting  extreme  views  gendered  by  crude 
progress  in  the  development  of  Biblical  knowledge  and  in  forcing  scholars 
to  pause  and  reconsider  conclusions  which  at  times  were  too  hastily 
adopted.  With  the  hope  that  much  more  of  fruit  may  come  to  us,  and 
with  the  heartiest  wishes  for  your  continued  health  and  strength,  I  re- 
main.    .     .     . 


APPENDIX 


Rev.  Timothy  Dwight,  D.D.,  LL.D,   President  of  Yale  University. 

My  Dear  Professor  Green  : 

I  be-  you  will  allow  me  to  express  to  you  my  most  sincere  and  hearty 
congratulations  on  the  occasion  of  your  fiftieth  anniversary  as  a  teacher 
and  professor.     It  would  give  me  very  great  pleasure  to  be  present  at  the 
commemoration  ceremonies,  and  to  offer  you    these    congratulations    in 
person,  but    it   now   seems   impracticable    for    me    to   do    so.     Professor 
Fisher  will,  at   our  request,    represent  our   University  and  our   Divinity 
School      He  will  bear  to  you  our  kindliest  greeting  and  the  testimony  ol 
our  great  respect  and  esteem.     Let  me,  for  myself  personally,  assure  you 
of  my  best  wishes  for  the  future  years  of  your  working,  which  1  trust  may 
be  many      You  have  the  greatest  reason  for  joy  and  satisfaction  in  your 
review  of  the  past.     Your  life's  work  has  not  only  been  a  most  honor- 
able and  useful  one,  when  viewed  in   itself,  but  it  has  been  multiplied 
in  its  results  and  influences  beyond  measure,  and  it  has  moved  into  the 
lives  and  working  of  the  large  company  of  those  who  in  these  many  years 
have  received  your  instructions  and  the  inspiration  of  your  mind  and 
spirit.     Your  pupils   everywhere    will   bear  you   on    their   hearts  at  this 
happy  season,  and  will  offer  their  most  earnest  prayers  that  the  peace  of 
God  may  be  with  you.     I  am  happy  to  have  had  the  privilege  of  knowing 
you  in  the  pleasant  relations  of  the  companies  who  met  so  often  in  the 
work  of  the  revision  of  the  English  version  of  the  Bible.     I  am  happy  at 
this  time  to  unite  with  the  survivors  of  those  companies  in  a  greeting  of 
friendship  for  one  whom  we  have  so  long  honored  as  a  friend  and  one  who 
has  done  so  much  for  the  honor  of  American  scholarship.     Kindly   give 
these  few  words  of  mine  a  place  among  the  many  congratulatory  words 
which  you  are  receiving  in  this  jubilee  year,  and  be  assured  that  they  are 
written  in  the  sincere  hope  that  the  benediction  of  the  divine  Father  may 
rest  upon  you  now  and  always. 

Rev.  Owen  H.  Gates,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Old  Testament  Language  and 
Literature  in  Oberlin  Theological  Seminary. 

The  invitation  courteously  extended  to  me  to  be  present  at  the  cele- 
bration of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Professor  Green 
upon  the  Faculty  of  your  Seminary  I  am  obliged  to  decline,  because  of 
the  imperative  nature  of  my  duties  here  at  that  time.  I  beg  to  con- 
gratulate the  Seminary  and  Professor  Green  as  well,  upon  his  long  service, 
and  to  express  my  appreciation  of  the  i  -raordinary  qualities  of  person 
and  scholarship  which  have  made  the  lonfe  nnection  with  you  possible 
and  profitable.  We  are  to  be  congratulated  in  view  of  Professor  Green  S 
notable  contributions  to  Old  Testament  scholarship. 


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Rev.  James  Gibson,  D.D.,  Edinburgh,  Scotland. 

I  much  regret  my  inability  to  accept  the  courteous  invitation  of  the 
Princeton  Theological  Seminary  to  the  approaching  celebration  of  Dr. 
Green's  Jubilee.  In  honoring  him  the  Seminary  honors  itself.  It  is 
indeed  something  for  any  institution  of  sacred  learning  to  boast  of— or 
rather  to  give  thanks  for — that  it  has  so  long  possessed  such  a  distin- 
guished champion  of  the  truth.  On  my  side  of  the  Atlantic  as  well  as 
yours  Dr.  Green's  writings  are  held  in  the  highest  respect,  even  by  those 
who  have  been  swept  off  their  feet — let  us  hope  only  for  a  time — by  the 
turbid  inrush  of  Dutch  and  German  criticism.  Let  us  hope  and  pray 
that  Dr.  Green  may  long  be  spared  to  lift  up  a  standard  against  it,  and 
to  train  up  faithful  men  who  will  be  able  to  meet  learning  with  greater 
learning,  and  to  contend  both  earnestly  and  successfully  for  the  integrity 
and  trustworthiness  of  the  Inspired  Word.     .     .     . 

Rev.  Edward  J.  Hamilton,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Mental  and  Moral  Philos- 
ophy in  Washington  State  University. 

Nothing  could  be  more  agreeable  to  my  feelings  than  to  be  present 
on  May  5th,  if  my  circumstances  had  not  rendered  it  impossible. 
The  graduates  of  Princeton  Seminary  are  very  widely  scattered  over  our 
country  and  the  world.  Those  of  us  who  are  on  this  distant  side  of  the 
continent  must,  for  the  most  part,  content  ourselves  with  sending  you 
our  fond  recollections  and  our  kindest  wishes.  Professor  Green  is  the 
only  remaining  member  of  that  noble  Faculty  whose  instructions  I  enjoyed 
forty  years  ago.  The  memory  of  him,  as  he  then  was,  in  the  first  full 
maturity  of  his  powers — modest,  dignified,  serious,  earnest,  laborious,  and 
thorough  ;  skilful  to  instruct,  eloquent  in  preaching,  thoughtful  and  con- 
siderate of  others,  and  ever  showing  a  tender  and  reverential  piety — yet 
dwells  with  me,  and  exerts  now,  as  it  has  already  done,  an  uplifting  and 
ennobling  influence.  I  honor  Professor  Green  greatly  as  a  scholar  and  a 
teacher  and  as  a  most  able  advocate  of  truth,  but  I  am  still  more  im- 
pressed with  the  power  of  his  stainless  Christian  life  ;  and  when  I  think 
how  many  during  these  last  fifty  years  have  received  like  benefits  with  me 
from  the  labors  and  the  example  of  the  good  man,  I  thank  God,  who  has 
so  blessed  his  servant  with  long-continued  usefulness.     .     . 

Rev.  Henry  M.  Harman,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Professor  of  Greek  and  Hebrew 
in  Dickinson  College. 

Professor  William  Henry  Green,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

My  Dear  Doctor :  I  heartily  congratulate  you  upon  the  fiftieth  an- 
niversary of  your  connection  with  Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  whose 


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fame  you  have  done  so  much  to  maintain  and  augment.  You  have  ren- 
dered splendid  and  most  valuable  service,  not  only  to  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  but  to  the  Christian  world.  Your  most  excellent  Hebrew  Gram- 
mar and  your  writings  in  defence  of  the  Pentateuch  put  you  in  the  first 
rank  of  the  Biblical  scholars  of  the  world.  May  God  grant  you  many  more 
years  of  usefulness.  I  greatly  regret  that  my  ill  health  prevents  me  from 
the  journey  to  Princeton  to  join  in  rendering  honor  to  one  who  well  de- 
serves the  honors  of  the  Christian  world. 

Rev.  Charles  C.  Hersman,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Professor  of  Biblical  Literature 
in  Union  Theological  Seminary ,  Virginia. 

As  one  of  Dr.  Green's  pupils,  now  a  large  body  extending  over  the 
whole  Church,  I  unite  with  others  to  do  him  reverence.  His  profound  and 
varied  scholarship  has  given  lustre  to  our  American  seminaries,  his  able 
defence  of  the  truth  has  endeared  him  to  all  evangelical  Christians  who 
hold  fast  the  old  landmarks,  and  his  keen  Damascus  blade  has  pierced  the 
joints  of  the  enemies'  harness.  The  fifty  years  that  have  passed  since  he 
entered  upon  his  work  have  been  marked  by  wonderful  revelations  in  the 
department  of  Biblical  study  and  criticism.  He  has  not  only  kept  abreast 
of  the  highest  advancement,  but  has  himself  been  a  leader.  In  its  perma- 
nent results  his  work  has  been  second  to  none,  at  home  or  abroad,  not 
even  to  that  of  his  great  co-laborer,  Dr.  Charles  Hodge.  What  the  one 
has  done  for  theology  the  other  has  done  for  Biblical  study,  the  mother  of 
theology.  These  two  servants  of  God  have  rendered  Princeton  illustrious 
among'the  schools  of  the  prophets.  The  name  of  William  Henry  Green 
is  imperishably  linked  with  the  honored  dead  and  the  honored  living,  who 
have  stood  for  the  Word  of  God  as  given  in  Moses  and  the  Prophets.  May 
his  bow  long  abide  in  strength  and  his  mantle,  when  he  departs,  fall  on 
some  of  his  pupils  who  shall  follow  the  venerable  and  beloved  teacher  in 
his  spirit  and  aim. 

Rev.  Moses  D.  Hoge,  D.D.,  of  Richmond,  Va. 

Dear  Dr.  Green  : 

Among  the  letters  of  love  and  congratulation  you  are  receiving  on  the 
completion  of  fifty  years  of  service  in  the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary 
please  accept  another,  coming  from  one  who  cherishes  a  profound  regard 
for  you  personally  and  for  the  memorable  work  you  have  accomplished. 
When  Dr.  Chalmers  resigned  his  pastoral  charge  to  become  the  teacher 
of  those  who  were  to  be  the  future  pastors  of  the  Church,  he  felt  that  he 
was  taking  his  position  at  the  fountain-head  of  influence  instead  of  spend- 
ing all  of  his  days  beside  one  of  the  streams.  Such  has  been  the  wisdom 
ofyour  course  under  the  guidance  of  divine  Providence  ;  and  the  instruc- 


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tion  you  have  given  to  such  a  multitude  of  candidates  for  the  ministerial 
office,  without  relinquishing  your  own  privilege  as  a  preacher  of  the  Gos- 
pel of  our  Lord  as  often  as  the  opportunity  offered,  and  the  contributions 
you  have  made  through  the  press  in  defence  of  our  most  holy  faith  have 
given  you  a  place  in  the  confidence  and  gratitude  of  your  brethren  due  to 
the  oldest  of  our  theological  professors.  I  hope  it  will  not  seem  presump- 
tuous in  the  humble  pastor  of  a  single  church  for  fifty  years  to  add  my  trib- 
ute of  thankful  recognition  of  what  you  have  achieved  in  the  wider  and 
nobler  field  of  your  labors,  and  to  express  the  hope  that  the  God  whom 
you  have  served  so  long  and  well,  may  crown  the  years  that  remain  to  you 
with  a  usefulness  even  surpassing  what  has  already  been  attained. 

Rev.    Samuel  M.  Hopkins,  D.D.,  Emeritus  Professor   in  Auburn   Theo- 
logical Seminary. 

I  accept  with  entire  content  my  natural  sentence  of  old  age  and  in- 
firmity, but  I  regret  that  it  should  absolutely  forbid  my  attending  on  the 
very  interesting  occasion  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of 
Professor  William  Henry  Green  as  Instructor  in  the  Theological  Seminary. 
I  had  flattered  myself  that  at  the  time  of  my  retiring  from  the  Chair  of 
Church  History  in  Auburn  Theological  Seminary,  two  years  ago,  I  was  the 
oldest  living  professor  in  any  such  school,  having  begun  my  term  of 
service  in  the  year  1847.  But  I  believe  that  Princeton  will  bear  away  the 
palm  for  having  enjoyed  not  merely  one,  but  the  two  most  "  antiquated" 
professors  in  this  or  almost  any  other  country.  The  labors  of  Dr.  Green 
for  half  a  century  have  shed  a  lustre  on  American  sacred  scholarship 
which  will  not  be  seriously  dimmed  by  any  difference  of  opinion  as  to  the 
value  of  this  school  of  criticism  in  which  he  is  easily  head  master.  The 
industry,  the  patience,  the  courage  displayed  in  the  championship  of 
sound  science  for  so  long  a  time,  claim  the  admiration  of  all  scholars. 
It  is  no  small  praise  in  such  a  service  to  stand  even  as  an  Athanasius 
contra  mundum.  Wishing  the  highest  success  to  so  notable  a  celebra- 
tion, so  honorable  alike  to  the  Seminary  and  to  the  distinguished  Pro- 
fessor,    .     .     . 


Rev.  Herrick  Johnson,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Professor  in  McCormick  Theological 

Seminary. 
Dear  Dr.  Green  : 

I  cannot  allow  the  occasion  of  your  fiftieth  anniversary  as  an  Instructor 
in  Princeton  to  pass  without  letting  both  my  judgment  and  my  heart 
speak  in  admiring  and  grateful  recognition  of  your  distinguished  service. 
I  congratulate  the  Seminary  on,  and  thank  God  for,  this  half-century  of 


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instruction.  You  have  made  it  noble  and  beautiful  with  your  ever-ripen- 
ing scholarship  and  your  ever-deepening  convictions.  It  stands  as  an  en- 
during monument  of  reverent  learning  and  devotion.  It  is  proof,  too,  that 
high  culture  and  prolonged  and  profound  study  are  consistent  with  a 
sweet  reasonableness  and  a  heart  open  and  sympathetic  to  all  real  prog- 
ress. I  recall  the  days  of  the  Committee  on  Revision  of  our  Confession, 
when  we  came  into  unusually  close  and  precious  fellowship,  and  I  remem- 
ber with  grateful  appreciation  the  catholicity  of  your  spirit  and  the  broad- 
ness of  your  sympathy,  and  the  valuable  contributions  they  furnished  to 
our  fraternal  conferences  and  doctrinal  discussions.  May  God  give  you 
years  yet  of  useful  and  honorable  service. 


Rev.    John  M.   King,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Old   Testament  Interpretation 
in  Manitoba  College,  Winnipeg,  Canada. 

I  desire  to  acknowledge  with  thanks  the  courtesy  of  the  invitation  ad- 
dressed to  me  to  be  present  at  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary 
of  Professor  Green's  appointment  as  an  Instructor  in  Princeton  Seminary. 
I  regret  it  will  not  be  in  my  power  to  be  present,  not  only  because  of  the 
great  distance,  but  also  because  I  shall  be  engaged  at  the  date  of  the 
celebration  in  the  active  work  of  our  summer  session  in  theology.  I  am 
glad,  however,  to  have  this  opportunity  for  expressing  my  high  regard 
for  Professor  Green  and  my  sense  of  the  important  service  which  he  has 
rendered  during  these  fifty  years  to  the  cause  of  learning  by  his  scholarly 
and  yet  cautious,  reverent  work  in  Old  Testament  inquiries,  and  I  would 
wish  to  be  permitted  to  join  in  this  way  in  the  tribute  of  esteem  which  is 
being  appropriately  paid  to  him. 


Rev.   Joseph    J.  Latnpe,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Old    Testament  Literature 
and  Exegesis  in  Omaha  Theological  Seminary. 

Dear  Dr.  Green  : 

The  invitation  to  attend  your  fiftieth  anniversary  has  been  on  my  table 
for  some  days.  It  would  give  me  much  pleasure  to  attend  and  congratu- 
late you  personally,  but  the  distance  makes  it  impossible.  Dr.  Harsha 
will  represent  our  Faculty  on  the  occasion.  1  have  never  been  privileged 
to  attend  your  instruction  in  the  class-room,  but  have  often  been  helped 
by  your  books  and  published  articles.  Most  heartily  do  I  congratulate 
you  on  all  that  the  Lord  has  enabled  you  to  accomplish.  Your  services 
have  been  and  are  now  of  great  value  to  the  cause  of  Christ,  and  my 
prayer  is  that  the  Lord  may  keep  you  yet  many  years  in  your  field  of 
useful  labor. 


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Right  Rev.  A.  N.  Littlejohn,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Protestant  Episcopal  Bishop 

of  Long  Island. 

Public  duties  on  May  5th  will  prevent  my  attending  the  celebration  of 
the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  Professor  Green's  appointment  as  Instructor  in 
the  Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton.  I  am  glad  to  know  that  Professor 
Green  is  to  be  suitably  honored  at  the  end  of  a  half  century  of  most  dis- 
tinguished service  in  the  field  of  Christian  learning  and  theological  instruc- 
tion. His  personal  character,  great  attainments,  and  fruitful  labors,  to  say 
nothing  of  what  he  has  done  to  extend  over  the  whole  land  the  name  and 
influence  of  the  Institution  with  which  he  has  been  so  long  connected, 
richly  deserve  all  that  can  be  said  and  done  to  give  dignity  and  emphasis 
to  the  proposed  celebration. 

Rev.  Matthew  B.  Lowrie,  D.D.,  Professor  in  Omaha  Theological  Semi- 
nary. 

My  Dear  Dr.  Green  : 

It  would  have  been  impossible  for  a  boy  to  have  grown  up  in  my 
father's  household  without  acquiring  for  yourself  a  sincere  respect  and  ad- 
miration. Your  friendship  for  my  father  was  the  means  of  directing  my 
steps  to  Princeton  College,  and  my  own  acquaintance  with  you  formed 
while  there  was  what  took  me  to  Princeton  Seminary.  How  much  of  my 
whole  life  has  been  decided  by  these  early  influences  it  is  not  hard  to 
trace.  You  have  surely  under  God  been  a  marked  element  of  Providence 
to  me,  and  for  this  I  am  sincerely  thankful.  I  also  recognize  the  fact  that 
what  I  have  personally  received  from  you  is  only  a  very  small  part  of  the 
good  you  have  done  by  your  life  and  teachings,  and  I  count  it  a  high  priv- 
ilege to  unite  with  the  great  number  of  grateful  pupils  and  friends,  as  we 
come  back  to  express  our  gratitude  and  love  to  you,  and  praise  God  that 
your  life  has  been  spared  to  continue  so  long  in  far-reaching  and  deeply  im- 
portant and  valuable  service  for  the  Church  of  God.  With  hearty  congratu- 
lations upon  the  occasion  of  this  anniversary,  and  the  prayer  that  for  many 
years  to  come  we  may  continue  to  enjoy  the  benefit  of  your  presence  with 
us  and  your  invaluable  labors  in  the  cause  of  truth,     .     .     . 


Rev.  A.  J.  Maas,  S.   J.,  Professor  of  Sacred  Scriptures  and  Hebrew  in 

Woodstock  College. 

The  kind  invitation  to  Professor  William  Henry  Green's  fiftieth  anni- 
versary as  Instructor  in  Princeton  Seminary  reached  this  place  during  my 
absence  ;  the  delay  of  answer  has  therefore  been  unavoidable.  Owing  to  a 
previous  engagement,  I  cannot  accept  the  invitation  for  Tuesday,  May  5th. 
I  regret  this  the  more  on  account  of  my  great  admiration  for  the  Pro- 


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fessor's  personal  merits  and  the  conservative  character  of  his  works.  May 
Providence  bless  him  with  many  more  years  of  literary  and  scientific  use- 
fulness. 

Rev.  R.  G.  MacBeth,  of  Winnipeg,  Canada. 

I  am  just  in  receipt  of  the  invitation  to  the  Jubilee  celebration  of  Dr. 
Green's  appointment  as  an  Instructor  in  the  Seminary.  As  I  go  East  in 
June  to  the  General  Assembly  in  Toronto,  I  regret  that  I  cannot  go  to 
Princeton  in  May.  But  in  the  most  entirely  heartfelt  manner  I  can  say 
that  I  shall  be  with  you  in  spirit  and  with  the  distinguished  company  that 
will  assemble  there  to  pay  every  tribute  of  honor  and  love  to  the  great 
and  good  man  upon  whose  life  and  work  God  has  so  unmistakably  set  the 
seal  of  His  approval.  A  long  letter  from  me  on  such  an  occasion  would 
be  uncalled  for  and  even  presumptuous,  but  as  one  who  has  been  called 
upon  to  take  some  humble  share  in  the  development  of  this  greater  West 
of  Canada,  in  which  I  was  born,  I  would  like  to  acknowledge  my  deep  in- 
debtedness to  Dr.  Green  for  precept  and  example,  inculcating  an  un- 
questioning faith  in  God  and  God's  Word  and  impressing  upon  those  who 
met  him  in  class-room,  or  library,  or  elsewhere,  a  noble  ideal  of  Christian 
manhood. 


Rev.  W.  J.  McGlothlin,  Instructor  in  Hebrew  atid  Old  Testament  in  the 
Southern  Baptist  Theological  Seminary. 

In  acknowledging  the  receipt  of  the  invitation  with  which  you  have 
honored  me  I  am  compelled  to  express  my  regret  that  pressing  duties  in 
the  Seminary  will  not  permit  of  my  presence  at  the  celebration  of  the  an- 
niversary. The  great  denomination  to  which  Dr.  Green  belongs  has  hon- 
ored itself  in  thus  honoring  this  learned  and  godly  man  who  has  so  long 
been  its  servant.  Through  you  I  hope  to  present  the  congratulations  of 
one  among  the  many  who  have  not  seen  his  face,  but  who  have  sat  at  his 
feet.  I  here  record  my  devout  thankfulness  to  Almighty  God  for  the  gift 
of  this  learned  and  devout  scholar,  this  distinguished  teacher,  and  earnest 
defender  of  the  faith.  May  many  years  yet  crown  his  head  with  useful- 
ness and  honor. 


Rev.  John  Macmillan,  M.A.,  of  Belfast,  Ireland. 

I  beg  to  thank  you  for  the  kind  invitation  to  be  present  at  the  forth- 
coming Jubilee  of  Dr.  Green.  I  am  exceedingly  sorry  that  circumstances 
do  not  permit  my  acceptance  of  it.  However,  as  far  as  my  sympathies 
with  the  promoters  of  the  celebration,  my  affectionate  regard  for  the  Sem- 
inary, and  my  admiration  and  cordial  good  wishes  for  the  venerated  Pro- 


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fessor  are  concerned,  I  can  sincerely  declare  that  on  Tuesday,  May  cth, 
"  There  shall  be  no  more  sea."  I  shall  be  with  you  in  spirit,  picturing 
the  scene,  living  in  the  light  of  other  days,  and  awaiting  with  much  inter- 
est the  published  report  of  the  proceedings.  In  common  with  all  his  stu- 
dents whom  I  have  met  since  1878,  I  feel  profoundly  grateful  to  Dr.  Green 
for  his  influence  in  the  class-room,  which  was  not  merely  intellectual  to  a 
high  degree,  but  also  deeply  moral  and  spiritual.  His  voice  and  manner 
have  kept  following  me  with  the  message,  "  Life  is  real,  life  is  earnest." 
We  are  all  proud  of  his  unique  position  as  a  scholar  and  defender  of  the 
sacred  oracles.  His  name — clarum  et  venerabile  nornen — is  eaually  re- 
spected on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic,  and  his  books  are  almost  as  eagerly 
looked  for  by  the  ministers  of  our  Church  as  of  yours.  Respect  for  his 
attainments  and  character  is  not  confined  to  any  school  of  thought  or  criti- 
cism ;  it  is  universal.  His  last  book,  which  I  read  a  month  ago,  and  which 
is  so  fresh,  vigorous,  and  satisfactory,  recalls  to  one's  mind  the  description 
of  the  man  whose  delight  is  in  the  law  of  the  Lord  :  "  He  shall  be  like  a 
tree  planted  by  the  rivers  of  water  that  bringeth  forth  his  fruit  in  his 
seasons  ;  his  leaf  also  shall  not  wither  ;  and  whatsoever  he  doeth  shall 
prosper." 


Rev.  Dunlop  Moore,  D.D  ,  of  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

Dr.  Green  is  pre-eminently  worthy  to  be  congratulated  and  honored  at 
the  completion  of  that  long  stadium  of  most  laborious  and  valuable  service. 
I  take  pleasure  in  testifying  my  personal  indebtedness  to  him  for  aiding 
me  to  maintain  my  faith  in  the  Scriptures  of  the  Old  Testament  against 
the  attacks  of  the  destructive  critics.  The  Church  at  large  has  cause  to 
thank  God  for  what  He  has  enabled  him  to  do  in  defence  of  divine  truth 
in  this  age  of  aggressive  and  widespread  unbelief.  I  do  not  think  that  I 
should,  as  so  many  in  these  last  days  have  done,  have  abandoned  all  con- 
fidence in  the  Old  Testament  as  a  supernatural  revelation,  even  if  I  had 
not  studied  the  writings  of  Professor  Green.  But  it  would  be  extremely 
ungrateful  on  my  part  not  to  acknowledge  the  blessing  that  they  have  been 
to  me.  I  have  counted  it  a  duty  to  bear  witness  repeatedly  in  public  to 
the  exceeding  value  of  Dr.  Green's  contributions  to  the  apologetic  litera- 
ture of  the  Old  Testament.  As  late  as  yesterday,  in  writing  to  a  distin- 
guished theological  professor  in  Scotland,  I  endeavored  to  induce  him  to 
use  his  influence  in  bringing  Dr.  Green's  last  and,  as  I  think,  greatest 
work  ("The  Unity  of  Genesis")  to  the  attention  of  that  large  number  of 
Scotch  ministers  who  have  become  more  or  less  the  victims  of  the  nega- 
tive critics.  My  earnest  prayer  is  that  the  Lord  may  long  preserve  Dr. 
Green  to  serve  the  cause  to  which  he  has  devoted  his  life. 


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Rev.  William  E.  Moore,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  of  Columbus,  O.,  Permanent  Clerk 
of  the  Presbyterian  General  Assembly. 

I  have  the  invitation  of  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  U.  S.  A.,  to  be  present  at  the  celebration,  May  5th,  of  the  fiftieth 
anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Professor  William  H.  Green  as  an  In- 
structor in  the  Seminary.  It  would  give  me  great  pleasure  were  it  in  my 
power  to  comply  with  the  invitation,  and  in  person  to  unite  with  his  many 
friends  in  congratulating  both  him  and  the  Seminary  on  what  God  has 
done  through  him  in  these  fifty  years  of  his  faithful  service  for  our  own 
Church  and  the  Church  at  large.  It  was  not  my  privilege  to  sit  as  a  pupil 
at  the  feet  of  Dr.  Green,  but  I  have,  I  trust,  profited  by  his  labors 
through  the  press.  I  count  it  among  the  highest  privileges  and  honors  of 
my  life  to  have  been  officially  associated  with  him  in  the  public  affairs  of 
the  Church,  and  so  to  know  the  man  and  to  love  him  as  a  Christian  brother 
as  well  as  to  admire  him  as  a  Christian  scholar.  I  am  glad  that  Princeton 
gives  to  our  common  Presbyterianism  and  to  our  common  Christianity  the 
occasion  in  this  celebration  for  calling  to  grateful  remembrance  the  many 
services  to  the  Church  and  to  his  humble  brethren  of  our  genial,  modest, 
sincere,  and  earnest  Christian  scholar  and  teacher.  May  God  spare  him  to 
you  and  to  us  for  yet  many  years  of  fruitful  labor  and  rich  enjoyment. 
Please  convey  to  him  my  sincere  regard  for  him  and  my  grateful  apprecia- 
tion of  his  friendship. 


Rev.  Walter  W.  Moore,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Professor  of  the  Hebrew  Language 
and  Literature  in  Union  Theological  Seminary,  Virginia. 

Please  accept  my  thanks  for  your  courteous  invitation  to  be  present  at 
the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Professor 
William  Henry  Green  as  an  Instructor  in  the  Theological  Seminary  at 
Princeton.  It  is  a  matter  of  profound  regret  to  me  that  urgent  business 
with  the  Board  of  Directors  of  our  own  Institution,  which  cannot  be  dele- 
gated or  postponed,  will  require  my  presence  here  on  the  very  day  which 
you  have  named  as  the  date  of  the  celebration.  I  am,  therefore,  con- 
strained, although  with  extreme  reluctance,  to  deny  myself  the  pleasure  of 
witnessing  the  exercises  of  this  notable  occasion.  But  I  desire  to  express 
through  you  my  cordial  congratulations  to  Professor  Green  and  the  Semi- 
nary upon  the  completion  of  fifty  years  of  faithful  and  fruitful  service. 
Thoughtful  and  evangelical  men  the  world  over  render  unfeigned  thanks 
to  Almighty  God  as  they  contemplate  the  long  and  illustrious  career  of  the 
venerated  scholar  whose  Jubilee  you  thus  commemorate.  And  well  they 
may.  For  during  these  years  he  has  moulded  hundreds  of  ministers  of  the 
Gospel  who  have  become  pastors  after  God's  own  heart,  feeding  the  people 


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with  knowledge  and  understanding.  In  addition  to  the  benefit  which  suc- 
cessive classes  for  half  a  century  have  received  from  his  oral  instructions, 
he  has  enriched  the  literature  of  his  department  by  various  contributions 
of  lasting  value.  To  say  nothing  of  the  strong  and  full  flow  of  his  review 
articles,  continued  from  year  to  year,  and  touching  every  subject— philo- 
logical, exegetical,  and  critical— that  has  interest  for  the  thorough-going 
student  of  the  Old  Testament,  I  can  myself  recall  eight  volumes  that  he 
has  published  since  1861,  not  counting  his  monumental  grammar  of  the 
Hebrew  language,  and  he  "  still  brings  forth  fruit  in  old  age."  The  esti- 
mation of  his  ability  and  general  scholarship  by  those  who  have  had  the 
best  opportunity  of  knowing  him  was  shown  nearly  thirty  years  ago  by  his 
election  to  the  Presidency  of  the  College  of  New  Jersey,  which,  on  being 
declined  by  Dr.  Green,  was  tendered  to  Dr.  McCosh.  The  estimation  of 
his  character  and  learning  by  other  scholars  in  the  same  department  may 
be  inferred  from  his  selection  as  Chairman  of  the  American  Old  Testa- 
ment Company  of  the  Anglo-American  Bible  Revision  Committee.  To- 
day he  is  pre-eminent  among  American  Hebraists  and  Biblical  critics  of 
every  shade  of  theological  opinion.  He  is  the  revered  and  trusted  leader 
of  the  younger  conservative  scholars  in  every  branch  of  the  Church.  He 
is  the  foeman  accounted  most  worthy  of  their  steel  by  those  who  belong  to 
the  more  radical  schools  of  contemporary  criticism.  It  must  be  accounted 
a  special  mark  of  God's  favor  to  your  Seminary  and  the  Church,  that 
during  these  years  which  have  witnessed  the  fiercest  conflict  between  the 
adherents  of  the  old  views  and  the  advocates  of  the  new  the  chair  of  Old 
Testament  Literature  in  our  most  largely  attended  Presbyterian  Seminary 
has  been  occupied  by  a  man  whose  talents,  learning,  and  discretion  have 
been  equalled  only  by  his  faith,  his  courage,  and  his  zeal  for  truth.  May  the 
good  hand  of  God  be  upon  him  as  the  shadows  lengthen  on  his  path,  and 
in  the  grateful  retrospect  of  honorable  work  faithfully  accomplished  may 
his  heart  be  filled  with  a  peace  and  cheer  like  those  of  the  aged  apostle, 
which  shall  be  to  him  pledges  of  that  still  more  precious  reward  which 
awaits  all  faithful  followers  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  May  his  life  be  long 
spared  to  the  Seminary  and  the  Church  for  which  he  has  labored  so 
assiduously  and  successfully,  and  the  distinguishing  favor  of  the  Most 
High  continue  to  rest  upon  your  venerable  institution  in  all  its  influence 
and  work. 


Rev.  Edward  D.  Morris,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Professor  of  Systematic  Theology 
in  Lane  Theological  Seminary. 

Hardly  anything  I  can  think  of  in  that  line  would  give  me  as  great 
pleasure  as  to  be  present  as  a  witness  of  the  commemorative  exercises  in 
honor  of  the  long  and  eminent  services  of  Dr.  Green.  For  many  years  I 
have  known  him  by  reputation  as  among  the  ablest  and  wisest  exegetes  in 


APPENDIX  145 

our  Church  or  in  the  country.  But  since  I  had  the  privilege  of  being 
closely  associated  with  him  in  the  Committee  on  the  Revision  of  our 
Standards  I  have  honored  him  in  my  thought  and  loved  him  with  all  my 
heart  in  a  degree  unknown  before.  I  look  back  on  that  period  of  intimate 
fellowship  with  increasing  pleasure  as  the  years  go  by  ;  and  I  would  be 
glad  to  take  some  humble  place  in  the  assemblage  of  pupils  and  friends 
gathered  to  pay  him  the  honors  so  justly  his  due.  Our  anniversary  occurs 
on  that  very  day  ;  and  I  hope  on  that  day  to  be  saying  my  own  nunc 
dimittis  after  nearly  thirty  years  of  service  in  this  less  conspicuous  sphere. 
His  long  day  of  labor,  like  mine,  is  drawing  to  its  close.  At  evening-time 
may  there  be  abundant  light  on  his  faith  ;  so  prays  his  sincere  friend. 


Rev.  J.  B.  Mowat,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Hebrew,  Chaldce,  and  Old  Testament 
Exegesis  in  Queen  s  University,  Kingston,  Canada. 

I  thank  you  very  much  for  the  invitation  to  attend  the  semi-centen- 
nial celebration  in  honor  of  Professor  Green.  Circumstances  will  prevent 
my  attendance  upon  that  very  interesting  occasion,  but  I  doubt  if  among 
those  who  will  be  present  any  one  feels  a  higher  admiration  and  reverence 
for  Dr.  Green  than  myself.  As  the  chair  which  I  have  occupied  for  the 
last  thirty-nine  years  in  Queen's  University — Hebrew,  Chaldee,  and  Old 
Testament  Exegesis — is  similar  to  his,  I  have  had  a  good  opportunity  of 
knowing  how  much  the  Church  is  indebted  to  him  for  the  learning  and 
ability  which  have  spread  his  name  and  fame  far  beyond  Princeton  and 
his  own  land.  He  is  a  tower  of  strength  to  us  of  the  old  school.  When  we 
are  taunted  with  a  preponderance  of  experts  who  have  adopted  the  new 
views  of  the  Bible  it  is  a  great  comfort  and  satisfaction  that  we  can  point 
to  Dr.  Green  as  one  who  has  no  superior  among  English-speaking  higher 
critics  for  scholarship,  and  yet  holds  as  firmly  as  ever  that  our  blessed 
Lord  was  an  infallible  teacher  and  that  every  scripture  is  inspired  of  God. 
I  hope  Dr.  Green  will  be  spared  for  years  after  his  fiftieth  anniversary  has 
come  and  gone  to  do  more  of  such  work  as  he  has  already  done  in  behalf 
of  Biblical  science. 


Rev.  Frederick  A.  Muhlenburg,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  of  Reading,  Pa. 

.  .  .  Though  having  always  been  a  member  of  the  Lutheran 
Church,  I  was  a  student  in  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  during  the 
winter  term  of  1838,  and  have  kept  in  kindly  remembrance  the  able  Chris- 
tian soldiers  whose  valuable  instructions  I  there  enjoyed.  The  wise  and 
venerable  Dr.  Archibald  Alexander  ;  the  learned,  methodical,  and  polite 
Dr.  Samuel  Miller  ;  the  mild  and  logical  Dr.  Hodge,  the  eloquent  and  en- 
thusiastic Dr.  Breckenridge  ;  and  in  Hebrew,  that  wonderful  scholar  and 
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146  APPENDIX 

genius,  Professor  Joseph  Addison  Alexander,  made  an  indelible  impres- 
sion on  my  memory  and  heart.  My  knowledge,  love,  and  continued  study 
of  the  Hebrew  language  to  this  year  were  the  result  of  his  tuition  and  in- 
spiration. One  of  my  genial  classmates,  with  a  fond  affection  common  to 
us  all,  used  to  call  him  "the  literary  curiosity."  What  bright  luminaries 
to  teach  others  !  Quid  Veritas  et  quid  sapientia  possit.  It  is  my  mis- 
fortune not  to  have  a  personal  acquaintance  with  Dr.  Green,  but  I  have 
often  been  edified  and  instructed  by  his  judicious  and  learned  explanations 
of  the  Old  Testament,  in  opposition  to  the  so-called  "higher  criticism," 
and  have  made  use  of  his  Hebrew  Grammar.  Thus  I  can  say  he  is  a 
worthy  successor  of  those  who  have  preceded  him  in  the  long  line  of  illus- 
trious teachers.  May  God  grant  him  many  more  years  of  usefulness  in 
his  honorable  office  and  a  happy  reunion  with  those  who  have  gone  before 
him  to  the  better  land. 

Rev.  Joseph  Packard,  D.D.,  Professor  0/ Hebrew  and  Biblical  Learning 
in  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Diocese  of  Virginia. 

It  would  give  me  great  pleasure  to  be  present  at  the  semi-centennial 
anniversary  of  Dr.  Green's  professorship,  but  my  age  and  infirmity  will 
compel  me  to  decline  your  invitation.  I  have  always  regarded  Dr.  Green 
as  without  a  superior  in  Biblical  learning.  The  whole  Church  honors  him 
as  a  defender  of  the  faith  against  the  assault  of  the  higher  criticism.  As 
a  member  of  the  Old  Testament  Company  of  the  Revision  of  the  Author- 
ized Version,  I  can  testify  to  his  valuable  services  as  president  of  the 
company. 

Rev.  James  Park,  D.D.,  of  Knoxville,  Tenn. 

An  unusually  protracted  absence  from  home  has  hindered  a  more 
prompt  reply  to  the  invitation,  and  but  for  this  my  answer  would  have 
been  a  glad  acceptance  instead  of  regrets  of  my  inability  to  attend. 
Since  I  first  heard  of  the  intended  celebration  of  this  anniversary  it  was 
my  desire  to  be  present  on  the  occasion,  but  a  serious  indisposition,  which 
necessitated  an  absence  of  some  weeks  from  my  charge,  has  also  put  it 
beyond  my  ability  to  go  to  Princeton.  But  my  heart  will  be  with  you  in 
according  to  Dr.  Green  all  the  honor  due  for  his  long  and  faithful  service, 
and  in  the  grateful  acknowledgment  of  God's  goodness  and  grace  in  con- 
tinuing his  efficient  labors  through  all  the  fifty  years  by  which  so  much 
honor  and  glory  have  been  brought  to  the  good  name  of  Princeton  and  the 
Presbyterian  Church.  My  recollection  of  him  as  a  fellow-student,  whom 
we  loved  for  his  diligence,  fidelity,  and  conscientious  discharge  of  duty,  as 
well  as  for  his  genial  companionship,  is  pleasant  and  vivid,  although  so 
many  years  have  passed  away.  May  the  blessing  of  our  covenant-keeping 
God  abide  with  Dr.  Green  and  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  always. 


APPENDIX  147 


Rev.    William  L.  Pearson,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Biblical  Literature  and 
Exegesis  in  Penn  College,  Oskaloosa,  la. 

Please  accept  my  heartiest  thanks  for  yourself  and  all  the  friends  of 
Professor  William  Henry  Green  who  have  honored  me  with  an  invitation  to 
the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  his  appointment  as  Professor 
in  Princeton  Theological  Seminary.  It  is  with  great  regret  that  I  find  it 
impracticable  to  be  present  on  an  occasion  of  so  much  interest  to  a  very 
large  number  of  friends  and  students  of  Dr.  Green.  It  was  my  good  fort- 
une to  pursue  my  studies  after  I  was  graduated  from  the  Seminary  under 
the  direction  of  Professor  Green  and  to  be  otherwise  pleasantly  connected 
with  him.  If  distance  and  duty  did  not  prevent  it,  I  should  deem  it  a 
great  privilege  to  be  present  at  this  very  important  anniversary.  This  is 
an  event  not  for  Princeton  students  alone,  nor  for  Presbyterians  alone  ;  all 
Protestantism  should  find  satisfaction  in  the  half  century's  work  of  such  a 
Biblical  scholar.  In  the  providence  of  God  Dr.  Green's  professional 
labors  began  about  the  time  the  negative  criticism  had  fairly  come  into 
prominence,  and  it  has  probably  had  no  abler  opponent  nor  a  worthier  one. 
This  is  substantially  the  opinion  expressed  by  the  late  W.  Robertson 
Smith  in  a  letter  to  a  professor  of  theology  in  Berlin  soon  after  "  Moses 
and  the  Prophets"  appeared.  His  students  will  always  remember  and 
reverence  Dr.  Green  most  for  his  deep  piety,  his  love  of  truth,  and  his  un- 
tiring devotion  to  their  daily  instruction.  But  they  have  been  truly  grati- 
fied to  observe  their  distinguished  teacher  standing  for  years  firmly  with  the 
few,  and  later  on,  though  almost  alone,  yet  highly  respected  even  by  his 
opponents,  as  the  defender  of  the  genuineness^and  entire  trustworthiness  of 
the  Bible,  a  tower  of  strength  unshaken,  though  often  assailed.  And  it  is 
their  great  pleasure  to  believe  that  his  influence  will  increase  in  years  to 
come  with  the  progress  and  growing  moderation  of  Biblical  criticism.  It 
is  needless  to  assure  you  of  the  admiration  and  love  of  a  truly  attached 
student  of  Dr.  Green. 

Rev.  J.  N.  Rendall,  D.D.,  President  of  Lincoln  University. 

I  find  that  I  must  forego  the  honor  and  the  pleasure  of  being  present 
at  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  Dr.  William  Henry  Green's 
professional  appointment  at  the  headquarters  of  our  American  Presby- 
terianism.  The  Theological  Faculty  of  Lincoln  University  have  sent  a 
delegation,  and  a  number  of  my  colleagues  will  be  personally  present. 
In  honoring  Dr.  Green  all  Presbyterians  honor  the  Church  for  whose 
Biblical  foundation  and  historic  constitution  Princeton  Theological  Sem- 
inary has  from  its  origin  contended,  as  for  "  the  faith  once  delivered  to 
the  saints."  The  Alumni  of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  have  great 
reason  to  take  part  in  the  joy  of  this  celebration.     Dr.  Green  represents 


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the  whole  life  of  the  Seminary.  He  was  the  pupil,  the  associate,  and  the 
friend  of  the  eminent  men  who  laid  the  foundation  of  its  greatness.  He 
was  one  with  them  in  their  reverence  for  the  Word  of  God  as  the  infalli- 
ble rule  of  faith  and  duty.  He  was  one  with  them  in  their  appreciation 
of  the  indispensable  importance  of  a  broad  and  thorough  scholarship, 
both  for  the  defence  of  the  truth,  and  for  the  preservation  of  soundness  in 
doctrine  in  the  Church  itself.  And  he  is  like  them  in  presenting  himself 
an  example  of  the  union  of  the  most  profound  research  in  the  whole  field 
of  evidence  and  interpretation,  together  with  the  most  liberal  charity  to- 
ward all  who  cannot  lightly  speak  evil  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  even 
though  they  follow  not  with  us.  Dr.  Green's  influence  has  always  been 
helpful  to  the  spirituality  of  the  students  of  the  Seminary,  stimulating 
to  their  scholarship,  and  expanding  to  their  Christian  sympathies.  And 
the  welcome  which,  whether  present  or  absent,  we  all  give  to  this  anni- 
versary, means  our  hope  and  confidence  that  the  union  of  sound  learning 
and  sound  theology  exemplified  in  his  life  may  never  be  separated  in 
Princeton.  But  his  reward  is  the  approbation  of  the  Lord,  and  not  our 
praise. 

Rev.  Matthew  B.  Riddle,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Professor  in  the  Western  Theo- 
logical Seminary ,  Allegheny,  Pa. 

My  Dear  Dr.  Green  : 

Our  Faculty  will,  we  trust,  be  represented  at  your  approaching  Jubilee 
as  a  teacher  in  theology,  and  give  formal  expression  to  our  congratulations. 
I  cannot,  however,  deny  myself  the  gratification  of  addressing  you  per- 
sonally in  view  of  this  auspicious  occasion.  Though  we  have  not  been 
associated  in  special  lines  of  study,  it  happens  that  you  and  I  are  the  only 
persons  who  were  members  of  three  Committees  on  Revision,  that  of  the 
English  Bible,  of  the  Westminster  Confession,  and  of  the  Proof  Texts  ap- 
pended thereto.  It  happens,  moreover,  that  coincident  with  your  own 
Jubilee  will  be  the  completion  of  twenty-five  years  of  continuous  service 
on  my  part  in  the  department  of  New  Testament  Exegesis.  Except  Dr. 
Morris,  of  Lane,  who  has  resigned,  though  still  in  service,  you  are  the 
only  professor  in  any  theological  seminary  who  was  occupying  a  chair 
when  I  began  in  1871.  It  is  hard  to  believe  that  in  seniority  of  service  I 
stand  next  to  yourself,  but  it  seems  to  be  true.  Dr.  Beecher,  of  Auburn, 
began  when  I  did,  but  all  the  others  are  our  juniors.  This  state  of  things 
warrants  me  in  sending  you  a  special  note  of  congratulation. 

Rev.  Robert   W.  Rogers,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Hebrew  and   Old  Testament 
Exegesis  in  Drew  Theological  Seminary,  Madison,  N.  J. 

.  .  .  The  day  when  William  Henry  Green  began  to  teach  at  Prince- 
ton is  a  day  now  historic  in  the  annals  of  Oriental  study  in  America.     We 


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who  are  essaying  to  do  teaching  and  to  carry  on  research  in  this  depart- 
ment are  nearly  all  his  sons,  even  if  we  have  never  enjoyed  his  personal 
instruction.  It  is  well  to  pause  in  order  to  commemorate  so  great  a  day 
and  to  honor  so  noble  a  scholar.  I  could  join  heartily  in  it  if  I  were 
so  happy  as  to  be  able  to  be  present. 


Rev.  Charles  A.  Salmond,  M.A.,  of  Edinburgh,  Scotland. 

It  would  give  me  the  greatest  pleasure  to  revisit  the  alma  mater, 
especially  on  so  interesting  an  occasion  as  the  celebration  of  Professor 
Green's  Jubilee.  But,  alas  !  three  thousand  miles  of  ocean  lie  between,  so 
that  I  cannot  possibly  be  with  you  then.  Accept  my  warmest  thanks  none 
the  less  for  the  invitation,  and  be  assured  that  I  shall  be  present  in  sym- 
pathy, if  not  in  bodily  appearance,  at  the  celebration.  Dr.  Green  is  one 
whom  the  great  brotherhood  of  the  Seminary  Alumni  may  well  delight  to 
honor.  When  we  think  of  the  successive  bands  of  students  who  have 
been  impressed  not  only  with  his  powerful  intellect  and  his  rare  scholar- 
ship, but  by  his  lofty  Christian  character  and  his  gracious  Christian  bear- 
ing, who  will  venture  to  measure  the  influence  he  has  exerted  directly  and 
indirectly  during  these  fifty  years  ?  Dr.  Green  is  the  only  member  now 
alive  of  the  Seminary  Faculty  as  I  remember  it  in  1877  and  1878.  To 
me  he  is  enshrined  in  heart  as  well  as  in  memory  with  Charles  and  Alex- 
ander Hodge,  as  a  noble  example  of  consecrated  Christian  manhood, 
loyally  and  unflinchingly  devoted  to  the  service  of  the  truth,  like  them. 
He  is  held  in  reverence  by  many  on  this  side  as  well  as  on  your  side  of 
the  Atlantic,  for,  like  them,  he  belongs  to  all  the  Churches.  To  Dr. 
Green  himself  as  well  as  to  all  assembled  on  May  5th,  it  will  be  a  great 
element  of  joy  to  note  the  continued  prosperity  of  the  Seminary,  and  to 
know  that  the  Princeton  tradition  is  still  in  the  hands  of  a  body  of 
teachers  so  worthy  to  be  the  successors  even  of  the  remarkable  men  who 
have  gone  before  them. 


Rev.  Thomas  J.  Sawyer,   D.D.,  Professor   Emeritus   in   Tuft's   Divinity 

School. 

I  thank  you  cordially  for  the  kind  invitation  to  be  present  at  the 
coming  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Rev. 
Dr.  Green  as  Instructor  in  the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary.  The 
occasion  will  be  honorable  to  the  man  and  the  institution.  I  have  long 
been  acquainted  with  the  Doctor's  learning,  labors,  and  character,  and 
nothing  would  give  me  greater  pleasure  than  to  share  with  his  numerous 
friends  and  former  pupils  in  doing  him  honor.  But  my  age— being  now 
in  my  ninety-third  year— the    distance,  and  the  fatigue  incident  to  the 


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undertaking  all  unite  to  admonish  me  that  prudence  is  the  better  part  of 
valor,  and  that  safe  at  home  and  in  my  own  neighborhood  I  must  content 
myself  with  reading,  or  rather  having  read,  the  account  of  what  my  eyes 
are  forbidden  to  see  and  my  ears  originally  to  hear.  I  shall,  I  am  sure,  be 
present  with  you  in  spirit  on  May  5th,  and  thus  witness  with  pleasure 
the  honor  paid  to  sound  learning  and  the  unity  of  the  Christian  religion, 
in  which  I,  with  you  and  all  sincere  believers,  rejoice. 


Rev.  George  H.  Schodde,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Greek  and  Hebrew  in  the 
Lutheran  Theological  Seminary  at  Columbus ,  O. 

I  have  received  from  your  Committee  an  invitation  to  attend  the  anni- 
versary celebration  of  Dr.  Green  on  the  fifth  of  next  month.  While  deeply 
regretting  the  fact  that  I  cannot  be  personally  present,  I  cannot  deny 
myself  the  pleasure  of  congratulating  both  the  institution  and  Dr.  Green 
on  this  occasion.  There  is  no  theologian  in  America  whom  I  delight 
more  to  honor  than  Dr.  Green,  whose  extraordinary  work  in  defence  of  old 
Bible  truth  has  endeared  him  to  our  Church,  that  counted  among  its  own 
sons  the  original  Henstenberg,  whose  spirit  and  scholarship  Dr.  Green  so 
well  represents  in  our  own  day.  It  is  my  hope  and  prayer  that  the  honored 
Old  Testament  veteran  of  Princeton  may  continue  for  many  years  yet  to 
defend  the  truth  as  he  has  done  in  the  past. 


Rev.  George  Adam  Smith,  D.D.,  Professor  in  the  Free  Church  College, 

Glasgow. 

Reverend  and  Dear  Sir  : 

The  Faculty  to  which  I  belong — the  Divinity  Professors  of  the  Free 
Church  College,  Glasgow — had  the  honor  of  an  invitation  to  the  celebra- 
tion of  your  Jubilee  as  a  professor.  We  sent  answer  that,  if  I  found  it 
compatible  with  my  other  engagements,  I  would  count  it  an  honor  and 
pleasure  to  be  present.  Unfortunately  it  is  not  in  my  power  to  be  in 
Princeton  on  Tuesday  to  assist  in  doing  honor  to  one  to  whom  all  Old 
Testament  scholars  look  up  as  a  scholar  and  critic.  I  beg,  therefore,  to 
be  excused,  but  I  hope  to  visit  Princeton  later  on,  when  I  shall  probably 
have  better  opportunities  of  meeting  you  and  of  making  your  acquaintance 
than  if  I  were  to  come  on  Tuesday.  Besides  the  personal  tribute  which  I 
would  have  brought  to  yourself,  sir,  I  would  have  come  charged  with  the 
expression  of  gratitude  and  cordial  esteem  toward  Princeton,  whose  help 
and  encouragement,  shown  so  richly  to  the  Free  Church  of  Scotland  at 
the  time  of  her  foundation,  is  not  forgotten  by  us,  and  never  shall  be. 


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Rev.  Richards.  Storrs,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

I   feel  it  an  honor,  as  it  certainly  is  to  me  a  great  pleasure,  to  present 
through  you  my   most  hearty  congratulations    to  Dr.  William  H.  Green 
and  to  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton  on  the  completion  of  fifty 
years  of  his  most  honorable  and  useful  connection  with  that  distinguished 
institution.     I  have  hoped  to  be  able  to  do  this  personally  in  attendance 
upon  the  proposed  services  to-morrow  ;  but  as  this  is  made  impossible 
by  the  urgency  of  other  imperative  calls  upon  me,  you  will,  I  hope,  do  it  by 
these  few  written  words.     Dr.  Green  and  his  work  have  been  known  to  me 
for  many  years,  and  no  Christian  scholar  has  been  more  highly  honored 
by  me.     The  work  of  no  one  has  commended  itself  to  me  as  more  careful 
and  thorough,  more  rich  in  best  elements  of  power,  more  instructive  and 
animating  to  the  minds  of  students,  more  fully  pervaded  by  the  spirit  of 
appreciative  independence  of  human  guides,  of  intelligent  and  profound 
reverence  toward  God  and  His  Word.     His  have  been  the  great  privilege 
and  the  great  responsibility  of  teaching  teachers  in  all  this  half  century  of 
years  ;  and  the  influence  which  through  them  has  gone  so  widely  over 
the  country  has  been  always  one  of  the  streams  which  make  glad  the  city 
of  God.     It  has  been  an  influence   for  thoughtful  and  serious  study,  for 
reverential  faith  in  the  divine    "Book  for  the  world,"  for   surer   trust  in 
its  majestic  and  tender  promises,  for  larger  and  more  eager  effort  to  ex- 
tend the  knowledge  of  it  to  all  mankind.     He  has   stood  self-poised  and 
assured  amid  the  whirls  of  changeful  and   conflicting   opinions,  and  the 
assaults  of  a  scepticism,  avowed  or  insidious,  have  been  met  by  him  with 
a  commanding  composure    and  a  fulness  of  refutation  which    have  given 
strength  to  the  weak   and  courage  to  the  timid  while  exalting  his  praise 
among  the  most  eminent  scholars  of  the  time.       Surely  he  is  to  be  con- 
gratulated on  the  great  work  which  the   Master  has  thus  permitted  and 
aided  him  to  accomplish  ;  the  Seminary  is  to  be  congratulated  on  having 
so  long  enjoyed  his  most  faithful  and  fruitful  services;    and  we   all,  of 
whatever  communion,  may  congratulate  ourselves  on  the  beauty  and  the 
power  which  he,  "  without  haste  and  without  rest,"  has  imparted  to  our 
faith  and  to  our  ministry. 


Rev.  Milton  S.   Terry,  S.T.D.,  Professor  of  Old  Testament  Exegesis  and 
Biblical  Theology  in  Garrett  Biblical  Institute,  Evanston,  III. 

I  sincerely  regret  that  it  will  be  impracticable  for  me  to  be  present  at 
the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  Professor  Green's  appoint- 
ment as  Instructor  at  Princeton.  The  entire  Evangelical  Church,  I  doubt 
not,  is  more  than  ready  to  congratulate  him  in  the  good  providence  which 
has  enabled  him  to  fill  out  such  a  monumental  record.     I  desire  to  bear 


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my  personal  testimony  to  the  inspiration  and  help  which  Professor  Green's 
published  works  have  been  to  me  for  twenty-five  years  in  my  studies  in 
Hebrew  and  Old  Testament  exegesis,  and  also  to  express  my  profound 
respect  for  his  ability,  his  scholarship,  and  his  fidelity  to  the  truths  of 
divine  revelation. 

Rev.  Cornelius  Van  Santvoord,  D.D.,  of  Kingston,  N.  Y. 

I  have  received  your  kind  invitation  to  be  present  at  the  celebration 
of  Professor  Green's  semi-centennial,  and  had  intended  to  acknowledge  it 
at  once,  and  trust  you  will  pardon  my  remissness  in  not  doing  so.  It  will 
give  me  great  pleasure  to  revisit  Princeton  after  an  absence  from  it  of 
many  years,  and  to  contribute,  however  slightly,  to  show  honor  to  one 
whom  the  whole  Church  honors  as  well  for  the  great  services  he  has  done 
it  all  these  years  as  for  his  high  character  as  a  religious  teacher  and 
Christian  man.  I  recall  with  lively  sensibility  the  days  when,  more 
than  half  a  century  ago,  I  enjoyed  the  instructions  of  the  Alexanders, 
father  and  son,  and  of  Drs.  Miller,  Hodge,  and  Breckinridge,  whose  in- 
fluence upon  my  own  humble  life  and  labors  I  have  never  failed  to  ac- 
knowledge and  feel  grateful  for.  The  most  of  those  with  whom  I  asso- 
ciated as  students  have,  with  the  teachers,  been  gathered  to  the  fathers 
since  then,  and  we  who  remain  must  follow  them  ere  long  ;  and  while  we 
do  remain,  I  am  sure  there  is  not  one  whose  heart  does  not  go  out  tow- 
ard Princeton  Seminary  in  grateful  recognition  of  the  good  received  from 
it  and  in  earnest  good  wishes  and  prayers  for  its  abiding  prosperity. 

Rev.  D.  M.  IVelton,   D.D.,  Professor  of  Hebrew  and  Old  Testament  in 
McMaster  University ,  Toronto,  Canada. 

In  reply  to  your  favor  recently  received,  in  which  you  do  me  the 
honor  to  ask  me  to  be  present  at  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anni- 
versary of  the  appointment  of  Professor  William  Henry  Green  as  an  In- 
structor in  the  Princeton  Seminary,  I  have  to  say  that  I  very  deeply  re- 
gret that,  owing  to  the  closing  exercises  of  McMaster  University  occurring 
at  the  same  time,  in  which  I  am  expected  to  take  some  part,  it  will  not 
be  possible  for  me  to  share  in  the  high  privilege  and  honor  which  your 
very  courteous  invitation  has  put  before  me.  In  giving  expression,  how- 
ever, to  this  regret,  I  beg  to  say,  also,  that  if  there  is  any  man  in  the 
world  whose  writings  have  been  of  special  value  to  me,  any  man  to 
whom  the  whole  Christian  world  is  greatly  indebted  for  his  masterly  de- 
fence of  Biblical  and  Christian  truth,  any  man  whom  I  profoundly  es- 
teem and  delight  to  honor,  that  man  is  Dr.  William  Henry  Green,  of 
Princeton.  My  earnest  prayer  is  that  his  years  and  strength  may  be 
greatly  multiplied,  so  that  long  yet  he  may  continue  to  serve  the  Master 
in  his  chosen  field  of  inquiry. 


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Rev.  W.   G.    Williams,  LL.D.,  Professor  of  Biblical  Literature,  etc.,  in 
the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University. 

I  return  most  hearty  thanks  to  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton 
for  the  invitation  to  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  Professor  Green's  appoint- 
ment as  an  Instructor  in  the  Seminary.     I  should  most  gladly  be  present 
with  you   upon  that  occasion,  but  it  comes  at  a  date  when  I  shall  find  it 
impossible  to  be  absent  from  college  duties.     But  I  most  cordially  sympa- 
thize with  you  in  this  appropriate  recognition  of  the  long  services  of  the 
distinguished   man  whom  you  and  all  the  world  delight  to  honor.     Pro- 
fessor Green's  admirable  work  is  known  in  all  the  land  and  his  praise  is 
in  all  the  Churches.     We  know  him  and  honor  him  as  a  great  teacher,  as 
an  author,  as  a  defender  of  the  faith,  and  as  a  man  of  exemplary  life  and 
character  ;  and  thousands  to-day  greet  him  from  afar  in  the  name  of  the 
common  Church  of  Christ  and  of  the  cause  of  Christian  education.     One 
who  has  also  been  a  teacher  here,  in  one  position,  for  more  than  fifty 
years,  sends  his  heartiest  congratulations  to  Professor  Green,  and  prays 
that  yet  many  years  may  be  added  to  his  useful  and  honored  life. 

Rev.  John  L.  Withrow,  D.D.,  of  Chicago,  III. 

I  will  not  be  able  to  attend  the  celebration  exercises,  May  5th,  in  honor 
of  the  beloved  Senior  Professor  of  the  Theological  Seminary  ;  but  it  is  with 
much  more  than  ordinary  emotions  of  regret  that  this  announcement  is 
made.  Ur.  William  Henry  Green  did  more  for  me  than  any  teacher  in 
my  student  days.  I  have  ever  since  revered  him  more  than  any  living 
man.  It  may  not  appear  so  to  all,  but  to  me  it  seems  as  if  he  has  served 
to  steady  the  forces  of  truth-seekers  on  theological  lines  as  no  other 
scholar  of  the  century  has.  Has  there  ever  been  a  fair  refutation  of  his 
reasoning  in  support  of  the  traditional  belief  in  the  Bible  as  the  very 
Word  of  God  ? 

Rev.  Charles  H.  H.  Wright,  D.D. ,  Grinfield  Lecturer  on  the  Septuagint 
in  the  University  of  Oxford,  England. 

I  received  yesterday  (just  before  starting  to  deliver  a  lecture  at  Cam- 
bridge) the  kind  invitation  to  attend  the  Jubilee  of  Professor  W.  H. 
Green,  D.D.,  on  May  5th.  I  regret  that  I  cannot  attend  your  Jubilee,  as 
the  expense  would  be  too  great,  but  I  cordially  greet  the  learned  Professor 
on  the  coming  Jubilee.  His  works  have  been  of  inestimable  importance 
in  the  past,  and  will  prove  even  more  important  in  the  future.  I  most 
heartily  greet  him  as  one  of  the  very  best  representatives  of  the  conserva- 
tive school  of  Old  Testament  criticism,  a  school  of  critics  which,  I  believe, 
will  yet  win  the  day. 


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Rev.   Dr.   Adolph  Zahn,  of  Stuttgart,  and  Rev.   Edward  Rupprecht,   of 
Sausenhofen,  Germany. 

HOCHGEEHRTER  HERR  PROFESSOR. 

Hochwiirdiger  Herr :  Bei  Ihren  fiinfzigjahrigen  Amtsjubilaum  nahen 
Ihnen  auch  zwei  deutsche  Theologen,  um  Ihnen  ihren  warmen  Dank  aus- 
zusprechen  fiir  die  vielfache  Belehrung  und  Anregung,  die  sie  in  Ihren 
ausgezeichneten  Schriften  gefunden  haben. 

In  Deutschland  von  aller  guten  Apologetik  fiir  die  heiligen  Biicher  des 
A.  T.  verlassen,  inmitten  einer  trostlosen  Negation  und  Verwirrung,  die 
bis  zur  volligen  Ableugnung  aller  gdttlichen  Offenbarung  im  A.  T.  sich 
steigerte,  und  die  mit  dem  bekannten  Stolze  der  deutschen  Gelehrten  vor- 
getragen  wurde,  mit  der  in  unserem  Vaterlande  bei  jedem  neuen  Fundlein 
wiederkehrenden  anmassungsvollen  Behauptung  dass  man  es  mit  "  sich- 
eren  Ergebnissen  der  Wissenschaft "  zu  thun  habe,  trat  uns  in  Ihnen  dem 
Chief  of  staff  of  the  Army  of  American  Hebrew  and  Old  Testament  stu- 
dents eine  Leitung  und  Unterstiitzung  entgegen,  die  uns  mit  den  besten 
Mitteln  der  Gelehrsamkeit,  des  klaren  Verstandes,  der  scharfsinnigen 
Einsichtung,  vor  allem  der  tiefen  Pietat  gegen  Gottes  Wort  die  vortreff- 
lichsten  Dienste  leistete.  In  unserer  Einsamkeit  entdeckten  vvir  Siejen- 
seits  der  grossen  Wasser  und  freuten  uns  iiber  das  helle  Licht,das  uns  aus 
der  Feme  entgegenleuchtete.  Wir  wurden  in  unserer  Verlassenheitdurch 
Sie  ermiitigt  und  gestarkt,  auch  fur  Deutschland  wieder  den  Kampf  fiir  die 
Wahrhaftigkeit  und  Zuverlassigkeit  des  A.  T.  aufzunehmen  und  alien  Be- 
hauptungen  des  kindischen  Wahnes  tapfer  entgegenzutreten.  Was  wir 
nicht  wussten,  wussten  Sie,  und  wir  schdpften  reichlich  aus  Ihren  immer 
klaren,  ruhigen  und  unwiderleglichen  Gedanken. 

Wir  kennen  unser  gelehrtes  Deutschland.  Man  fiihlt  sich  bei  uns  wohl 
wenn  man  alles  immer  wieder  mit  einen  Mitteln  bekritteln  und  verneinen 
kann  ;  der  Eifer  ist  anfanglich  Himmelhoch,  der  Zulauf — namentlich  der 
Jugend  bedeutend,  mit  alien  Posaunen  wird  geschmettert,  das  man  nun 
endlich  hinter  das  Geheimnis  des  A.  T.  gekommen  sei — aber  das  halt  in 
Deutschland  nur  eine  gewisse  Zeit  an  ;  man  steigert  sich  in  eine  masslose 
Verwirrung  hinein,  man  kauft  die  Biicher  dann  wird  man  mude,  man 
bekommt  Uberdruss  an  seiner  Geschaftigkeit — und  man  bricht  ab,  was 
man  aufgebaut.  Nachdem  man  Kirchen  des  Inlandes  und  Auslandes 
vergiftet  hat,  nachdem  man  die  Grundlage  der  Reformation  zerstort  hat, 
erklart  man  mit  kalter  Ruhe,  das  sich  diese  Hypothesen  nicht  halten 
lassen.  So  hat  der  Protestantismus  in  Deutschland  sein  Spiel  getrieben 
seit  Mitte  des  vorigen  Jahrhunderts  und  wird  es  weiter  treiben,  wenn  Gott 
ihm  noch  eine  Scheinleben  lasst. 

Wir  wollen  es  doch  heute  vor  der  gesamten  amerikanischen  Welt,  in 
der  ein  Bibel  noch  so  viel  gilt,  gerade  an  Ihrem  Ehrentage,  hochwurdiger 
Herr,  zur  Befestigung  mancher  aussprechen  ;    der  Pseudoprotestantismus 


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hat  in  Deutschland  bei  unausgesetzter  kritischer  Arbeit  auch  keine  einzige 
Thatsache,  kein  einziges  Eigebniss  ermittelt,  ja  er  hat  nicht  einmal  die 
bessere  Erkentniss  der  menschlichen  Entstehung  der  heiligen  Schriften 
gefordert.  Wohl  Ihnen,  hochwiirdiger  Herr,  dass  Sie  den  deutschen 
Einfallen  nicht  geglaubt,  sondern  ihnen  festen  Wiederstand  geleistet 
haben  und  so  auch  uns  gestarkt  haben.  In  den  herrlichen  Raumen  des 
beruhmten  Princeton,  in  mitten  vieler  wackerer  Schuler,  wohlbekannt 
jenseits  und  dieseits  des  Oceans  feiern  Sie  in  ehrwiirdigem  Alter  nach 
Muhe  und  Fleiss  ein  ehrenreiches  Jubilaum.  Das  ist  doch  der  grosste 
Ruhm,  der  Ihnen  zufallt  ;  Sie  haben  uberall  der  Schrift  mehr  geglaubt 
als  den  Ansichten  irrtumsvoller  Menschen.  Mit  den  herzlichsten  und 
aufrichtigsten  Gluck-und  Segenswiinchen  gesellen  auch  wir  uns  unter  die 
Freunde,  die  Ihnen  Heil  zurufen  !  Moge  die  Barmherzigkeit  Gottes  noch 
lange  erhalten  und  Sie  in  allem  guten  Werke  fdrdern. 
Ihre  ergebenen  Dr.  th.  and  lie.  th. 

Adolph  Zahn, 
reformirter  Pfarrcr  in  Stuttgart. 

Eduard  Rupprecht, 
Pfarrer  in  Sausenhofen  in  Bayern. 


PRESS   ARTICLES. 

The  Presbyterian  Banner  of  April  15,   1896. 

.  .  .  As  Chairman  of  the  American  Company  for  the  Revision  of  the 
Old  Testament,  Dr.  Green  occupied  a  most  conspicuous  and  responsible 
place,  which  he  filled  with  great  ability  and  in  a  way  most  highly 
creditable  to  American  scholarship.  In  1891  he  was  Moderator  of  the 
General  Assembly  which  met  in  Detroit,  and  discharged  the  duties  of  his 
position  most  acceptably.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Second  General 
Council  of  the  Presbyterian  Alliance  which  met  in  Philadelphia  in  Septem- 
ber, 1880.  He  published  in  1861  a  Grammar  of  the  Hebrew  Language  ; 
in  1863,  a  Hebrew  Chrestomathy ;  in  1866,  an  Elementary  Hebrew  Gram- 
mar; in  1863,  "The  Pentateuch  Vindicated  from  the  Aspersions  of  Bish- 
op Colenso,"  and  in  1870  he  translated  Zockler's  "Commentary  on  the 
Song  of  Solomon,"  for  the  American  edition  of  Lange's  Commentary. 
He  has  also  been  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  Pt  inceton  Review  and  to  its 
successor,  the  Presbyterian  and  Reformed  Review. 

But  probably  he  has  in  nothing  rendered  more  efficient  service  for  the 
Church  and  for  the  truth  of  God  than  in  his  opposition  to  the  efforts 
to  destroy  confidence  in  the  infallibility  and  absolute  truthfulness  of  the 
Bible,  made  by  that  school  of  critics  of  which  Dr.  Briggs  is  the  best- 
known  leader  in  this  country.  His  scholarship  met  and  defeated  them  at 
every  turn,  and  also  strengthened  the  confidence  of  the  people  in  the 
Word  of  God.  To  him  evangelical  Christians  of  all  denominations  owe  a 
lasting  debt  of  gratitude.  In  addition  to  a  number  of  able  review  articles 
in  defence  of  the  Bible  as  it  is  and  has  been  held  by  the  Presbyterian  and 
all  other  orthodox  denominations,  he  has  written  several  volumes  distin- 
guished for  vast  learning  and  great  ability.  Among  these  are  "  The 
Higher  Criticism  of  the  Pentateuch"  and  "The  Unity  of  the  Book 
of  Genesis." 

Christian   Work  of  April  23,   1896. 

Among  the  various  semi-centennials  that  come  trooping  along,  none, 
perhaps,  will  be  celebrated  with  heartier  enthusiasm  than  the  fifty-year 
anniversary  of  the  appointment  of  Professor  William  Henry  Green  to  be 
Instructor   in    Princeton   Theological   Seminary.     Fifty   years   is  a   long 


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period  to  look  back  upon  ;  for  Professor  Green  it  is  a  most  memorable 
and  inspiring  period,  for  it  speaks  of  noble  work  grandly  performed.  It 
was  in  1846  that  Professor  Green  first  began  to  instruct  the  young  theo- 
logues  of  Princeton,  many  of  them  now  gray-headed  men  in  the  ministry 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  And  though  his  teaching  was  interrupted  by 
a  pastorate  in  Philadelphia,  it  was  only  for  two  years.  Since  1851  Profess- 
or Green  has  held  the  chair  of  Biblical  and  Oriental  Literature  in  Prince- 
ton Theological  Seminary  ;  and  how  admirably  his  work  has  been  done 
the  world  of  church  scholarship  knows,  for  Professor  Green's  reputation  is 
•not  confined  to  this  country.  Although  in  his  scholarship  Dr.  Green  is  a 
pronounced  conservative,  he  has  always  had  the  hearty  respect  and  good- 
will of  the  more  radical  element ;  for  Dr.  Green  has  always  held  his  mind 
open  to  truth  from  any  and  every  source  ;  and  if  he  has  differed  with 
many  Biblical  scholars,  such  as  Dr.  Harper  and  Professor  Francis  Brown 
and  others,  as  to  the  origin  and  date  of  the  Biblical  books,  he  has  arrived 
at  his  conclusions  by  a  utilizing  of  the  higher  critical  methods— the  very 
methods  adopted  by  his  opponents.  Indeed,  not  the  least  valuable 
service  which  Professor  Green  has  rendered  the  Presbyterian  Church — 
however  slow  some  Presbyterian  ministers  are  to  perceive  it — is  his 
demonstration  that  not  only  is  the  higher  criticism  not  the  bugbear  that 
some  regard  it  as  being,  but  rightly  used  it  can  be  made  a  powerful 
method  for  defending  the  more  conservative  position.  And  it  is  safe 
to  say  that  had  Dr.  Green  not  used  this  method,  he  would  not  stand 
as  high  in  the  estimation  of  Biblical  scholars  as  he  does  to-day.  We 
rejoice  that  the  coming  semi-centennial  of  Dr.  Green's  professional  service 
is  to  be  so  worthily  commemorated,  in  doing  which  the  Presbyterian 
Church  honors  itself  quite  as  much  as  it  does  the  distinguished  recipient 
of  its  regard. 

The  Presbyterian  of  April  29,   1896. 
PRINCETON   AND   DR.    GREEN. 

Nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago  there  was  a  "  high  day  "  in  Prince- 
ton, N.  J.  It  was  the  day  when  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  election  of 
Dr.  Charles  Hodge  to  a  professorship  in  the  Theological  Seminary  of  that 
place  was  celebrated  by  an  assemblage  such  as  had  never  gathered  there 
before,  and  by  services  of  a  character  which  a  few  still  living  delight  to 
recall.  What  was  said  in  public  is  on  record,  and  the  generations  to  come 
may  read  therein  what  was  thought  of  that  good  man  and  that  great 
divine  by  the  men  who  lived  with  him  and  saw  the  order  and  beauty  of 
his  daily  life.  What  was  said  in  private  was  said  even  more  generously, 
but  not  less  sincerely,  and  was  the  free  expression  of  special  esteem  and 
love  for  the  one  whom  all  were  striving  to  honor. 

The  writer  of  this  article  often  recalls  one  of  the  private  loving  testi- 


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monies  to  Dr.  Hodge  which  was  uttered  that  day,  and  in  a  way  which  was 
to  him  very  impressive.  He  was  walking  for  a  time,  under  the  shade  of 
the  old  trees  in  the  front  of  North  College,  with  the  late  Dr.  Shedd,  of 
Union  Seminary,  in  New  York  City.  We  talked  of  other  things  for  a  few 
minutes,  but  our  talk  turned  very  soon  to  the  day  and  to  the  occasion 
which  had  brought  us  there.  Dr.  Shedd  paused  at  length  in  the  conver- 
sation and  his  thoughts  seemed  to  drift  away  into  the  past.  Then,  turn- 
ing his  fine,  serious  face  around  and  looking  upon  the  buildings  and  over 
the  greensward  before  him,  he  said:  "Yes,  colleges  like  this  cost. 
They  take  time  ;  they  call  for  self-denial ;  they  demand  lives  consecrated 
to  their  service.  But  they  pay — sometimes  pay  largely,  and  pay  all  at 
once.  Princeton  College  gave  back  to  the  Church  and  the  State  a  fine 
interest  on  all  that  is  invested  here  when  it  produced  such  a  man  as 
Charles  Hodge."  Dr.  Shedd  did  not  speak  in  public  on  that  day,  as 
Union  Seminary  was  represented  by  his  noble  colleague,  Dr.  Henry  B. 
Smith.  We  are  very  glad  to  make  this  late  record  of  what  he  said  so 
emphatically  in  private. 

The  biographer  of  Dr.  Hodge  has  informed  us  that  the  suggestion  of 
that  celebration  "originated  with  and  its  execution  for  the  most  part  de- 
volved upon  his  loving  and  filial  pupil  and  colleague,  Professor  William 
H.  Green."  Now  Princeton  Seminary,  with  her  roll  of  students,  length- 
ened by  the  lapse  of  almost  a  quarter  of  a  century,  is  about  to  do  honor 
to  one  who  has  added  lustre  to  the  name  of  Princeton  by  giving  his  life  to 
the  training  of  young  men  for  the  high  office  of  the  ministry  and  to 
learned  defences  of  the  faith  inherited  from  those  fathers  who  laid  deep 
the  foundations  of  this  institution.  It  is  meet  that  such  honor  should  be 
done  to  a  man  who  has  sought  nothing  for  himself,  but  has  given  freely 
all  his  wealth  of  learning,  his  fine  critical  powers,  and  his  wisdom  in  coun- 
sel to  the  service  of  the  Church.  In  view  of  the  celebration  now  close  at 
hand,  we  may  be  permitted  to  give  a  brief  sketch  of  the  life  and  work  of 
this  most  worthy  man.     .     .     . 

In  the  "still  air  of  delightful  studies,"  and  surrounded  by  the  quiet 
beauty  of  his  home  in  Princeton,  Dr.  Green  has  passed  a  long,  laborious, 
and  most  useful  life.  Those  who  have  been  near  him  know  how  full  this 
life  has  been  of  all  that  becomes  a  teacher,  a  student,  a  guide  in  the 
preparation  for  the  highest  of  all  offices,  a  citizen  of  the  State,  and  a 
minister  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ  to  his  fellow-man.  But  those  who  know 
him  best  will  be  most  ready  to  say  that  we  will  miss  a  most  shining  qual- 
ity in  the  man  if  we  did  not  say  that  he  adds  to  great  learning  and  abiding 
fidelity  to  truth  the  rarest  and  truest  modesty.  This  is  the  crowning 
grace  in  a  character  which  has  won  for  Dr.  Green  the  confidence  and 
admiration  of  troops  of  friends,  many  of  whom  will  gather  next  week  in 
Princeton  to  give  utterance  to  their  loving  appreciation  of  their  old  com- 
panion and  teacher. 


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The  New    York   Observer  of  April  30,    1S96. 

PROFESSOR   WILLIAM    HENRY   GREEN. 

The    Theological   Seminary  of  the   Presbyterian   Church,  located   at 
Princeton    N.  J.,  has  been  fortunate  in  enjoying  the  services  of  several  of 
its    eminent    professors   during    unusually    long   periods.     Dr.    Archibald 
Alexander  and  Dr.  Samuel  Miller  constituted  its  first  Faculty  of  instruc- 
tion   and  each  of  them  was  a  professor  for  nearly  forty  years.     Dr.  Charles 
Hod-e  was  the  next  addition  to  the  teaching  staff.     He  began  to  teach  in 
i8->o°  and  fifty-eight  years  later  died  as  Professor  of  Exegetical,  Didactic, 
and  Polemic  Theology.     No  later  instructor  has  had  a  career  as  long  as 
that    during  which  Dr.  Hodge  did  so  much  to  advance  theological  science 
and 'to  promote   the  interests  of  Christian  union  and   evangelical  belief. 
But  the  brilliant  Joseph  Addison  Alexander  taught  in  its  lecture-rooms  for 
twenty-seven  years  (1833-60);  Dr.  A.  T.  McGill,  the  eminent  father  of 
the  present  Chancellor  of  New  jersey,  was  a  member  of  the  Faculty  for 
thirty-five  years  (.854-89);    Dr.  Caspar  Wistar  Hodge,  one  of  the  best 
furnished  and  most  inspiring  teachers  in  New  Testament  history  and  ex- 
position the  country  has  produced,  lectured  on  these  subjects  for  thirty- 
one  years  (1860-9.);    and  Dr.  James  Clement   Moffatt,  after  a  brilliant 
career  as  professor  at  Lafayette  College,  Miami  University,  and  Princeton 
College   was  Professor  of  Church  History  for  twenty-nine  years  (.86.-90). 
The 'authorities  of  the  Seminary  are  preparing  to  celebrate  at  the  next 
commencement,  on  the  5th  of  the  coming  May,  the  accession  to  its  teach- 
ing staff  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  William  Henry  Green,  now  Professor  of  Oriental 
and  Old  Testament  Literature.     Dr.  Green  was  appointed  Instructor  of 
Hebrew  at  Princeton  a  half  century  ago.     How  well  he  deserves  this  spe- 
cial recognition  of  his  distinguished  career  is  evident  from  the  following 

sketch  ■ 

William  Henry  Green  was  born  at  Groveville,  N.  J.,  January  27, 
18"  5  He  belongs  to  a  family  that  has  occupied  a  conspicuous  place  in 
that  State.  His  father  was  an  eminent  merchant.  One  of  his  uncles  was 
Chancellor  of  New  Jersey  and  another  was  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Errors 
and  Appeals.  The  eldest  of  his  father's  brothers  was  the  late  John  C. 
Green  of  New  York,  to  whom  Princeton  College  is  indebted  for  its  library 
and  its  school  of  science,  Lawrenceville  for  its  revived  and  enlarged  pre- 
paratory school,  and  the  College  and  Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton 
for  large  endowments.  Dr.  Green  is  a  descendant  of  Jonathan  Dickinson, 
the  first  President  of  the  College,  and  almost  the  first  large  gift  of  his  uncle 
to  the  College  was  the  building  for  lectures  known  as  Dick.nson  Hall. 

Thou-h  thus  closely  associated  with  New  Jersey,  he  received  his  colle- 
giate education  in  Pennsylvania.  He  was  graduated  with  honors  at  Lafay- 
ette College,  in  1840,  before  he  was  sixteen  years  old.  He  was  made  a  tutor 
in  his  alma  mater  immediately  upon  his  graduation,  and  held  that  position 


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for  two  years,  at  an  age  when  most  boys  are  in  preparatory  schools.  He 
resigned  his  tutorship  in  1842,  being  only  seventeen  and  a  half  years  old, 
and  matriculated  as  a  student  of  theology  at  Princeton.  Here  he  remained 
a  year  only  ;  for  Lafayette  College  needed  his  services  again  as  teacher  of 
mathematics,  and  he  returned  to  Easton  in  that  capacity.  After  a  year's 
labors  he  came  back  to  the  Theological  Seminary  and  completed  the  course, 
being  graduated  in  1846.  By  this  time  his  theological  alma  mater  felt  that 
his  services  belonged  to  her.  Dr.  J.  Addison  Alexander  was  engaged  in  liter- 
ary work,  which  all  were  convinced  he  should  have  the  time  to  carry  for- 
ward. Mr.  Green's  high  character,  scholarly  habits,  and  remarkable 
powers  of  acquisition,  especially  in  the  sphere  of  languages,  had  attracted 
the  attention  of  the  Faculty,  and  he  had  shown,  even  as  a  boy  of  between 
fifteen  and  sixteen,  that  he  could  teach  successfully  minds  as  mature  as 
those  of  college  students.  He  was  appointed  Instructor  of  Hebrew,  and 
continued  in  this  position  for  three  years.  Meanwhile  the  Second  Pres- 
byterian Church  of  Princeton  had  been  organized,  and  he  added  to  the 
duties  of  Instructor  in  the  Seminary  those  of  the  Church's  stated  supply. 

He  had  been  engaged  in  this  work  only  a  short  time  when  his  ability 
and  fervor  as  a  preacher  attracted  the  attention  of  several  Presbyterian 
churches.  It  became  a  serious  question,  whether  one  with  his  preaching 
gifts  ought  to  remain  in  a  small  village,  even  though  engaged  in  work  as 
useful  as  that  of  an  Instructor  in  Hebrew.  This  question  seemed  to  him 
and  to  the  Church  to  have  been  answered  permanently,  when  in  1849,  at 
twenty-four  years  of  age,  after  having  taught  higher  branches  of  learning 
six  years,  he  accepted  a  call  to  one  of  the  most  influential  Presbyterian 
churches  of  Philadelphia,  the  Central  Church.  There  are  some  still  liv- 
ing on  whose  minds  and  hearts  his  preaching  made  a  profound  impression. 
He  was  recognized  as  one  of  the  ablest  and  most  acceptable  preachers  in 
Philadelphia  at  a  time  when  Albert  Barnes  and  Henry  A.  Boardman  and 
Charles  Wadsworth  and  Charles  W.  Shields  were  among  its  Presbyterian 
pastors  ;  and  though  he  was  above  all  a  student,  and  had  the  diffidence  in 
society  of  a  man  of  books,  his  congregation  found  him  a  laborious,  faith- 
ful, and  sympathetic  pastor.  About  thirty  years  ago  one  of  his  students, 
meeting  him  at  an  evening  reception  and  impressed  with  the  difference 
between  the  immediate  circumstances  of  their  association  and  those  of 
their  daily  encounters  in  the  "Miller  Lecture-Room,"  greeted  him  with 
the  remark  :  "  Dr.  Green,  I  am  delighted  to  meet  you.  so  to  say,  on  Eng- 
lish ground."  All  the  accounts  of  his  brief  pastorate  justify  the  conclusion 
that  to  meet  him  on  "  English  ground"  and  as  a  pastor  was  a  most  pleas- 
ant experience.  There  was  no  department  of  the  pastor's  work  in  which 
he  was  not  successful.  Ten  years  after  its  close  one  of  the  students  of 
the  Seminary,  who  was  in  a  position  to  know,  said  to  the  writer  of  this 
sketch  :  "  I  do  not  believe  that  there  is  in  New  Jersey  a  more  acceptable 
speaker  to  children  than  Rabbi  Green." 


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From  this  pastorate,  two  years  after  its  commencement,  the  General 
Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  called  him  to  the  chair  of  Biblical 
and  Oriental  Literature  in  Princeton  Seminary.  The  same  Assembly  trans- 
ferred Dr.  Addison  Alexander  to  the  chair  of  Biblical  and  Ecclesiastical 
History.  The  Seminary  was  entering  upon  the  second  stage  in  its  history. 
Dr.  Miller  died  in  1850  and  Dr.  Archibald  Alexander  in  1851,  the  year  of 
Professor  Green's  election.  During  the  same  year  the  Seminary  lost  Dr. 
James  W.  Alexander,  who  became  the  pastor  of  what  is  now  known  as  the 
Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church  of  New  York  City.  Between  1851  and 
1854,  when  Dr.  McGill  was  elected,  Dr.  Hodge,  Dr.  Addison  Alexander, 
and  Professor  Green  were  the  Faculty. 

Professor  Green,  notwithstanding  the  administrative  work  that  was 
necessarily  added  to  his  new  duties,  not  only  gave  elementary  and  ad- 
vanced instruction  in  Hebrew,  and  prepared  his  courses  in  general  and 
special  Introduction,  but  became  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  Biblical 
Repertory  and  other  journals,  writing  for  the  most  part  on  Old  Testament 
and  philological  subjects. 

Soon  after  he  became  Professor  in  the  Seminary  he  felt  the  need  of  a 
new  Hebrew  grammar,  and  set  himself  to  the  task  of  its  preparation.  The 
first  edition  appeared  in  1861,  and  the  fourth  edition  in  1885,  to  which  he 
subsequently  added  a  complete  syntax.  A  Hebrew  Chrestomathy  was 
published  in  1863,  and  an  Elementary  Grammar  in  1866,  a  new  edition 
appearing  in  1871.  A  large  proportion  of  the  articles  whose  titles  have 
been  given  were  written  in  defence  of  the  Scriptures  and  against  special 
attacks.  Soon  after  the  publication  of  the  grammar  the  excitement 
caused  by  Bishop  Colcnso's  attack  upon  the  trustworthiness  of  the  Mosaic 
history  led  Dr.  Green  to  defend  it  in  a  small,  but  spirited,  volume,  entitled 
"The  Pentateuch  Vindicated  from  the  Aspersions  of  Bishop  Colenso." 
He  took  part  in  the  preparation  of  the  American  edition  of  Lange's  Com- 
mentary, being  the  translator  and  editor  of  Zockler's  "  Commentary  on 
the  Song  of  Solomon." 

When  the  American  Company  for  the  Anglo-American  Bible  Revision 
Committee  was  organized  some  time  in  the  seventies,  Dr.  Green's  high 
position  among  American  scholars  was  so  generally  recognized  that  he  was 
elected  Chairman  of  the  Old  Testament  Section.  It  is  understood  that  the 
traits  of  this  revision,  which  have  pleased  the  conservative  and  called  out 
the  criticism  of  the  more  nearly  "radical"  Hebraic,  from  the  beginning 
received  his  cordial  approval.  At  all  events,  Dr.  Green,  when  the  critics 
had  delivered  themselves,  came  to  the  defence  of  the  Old  Testament  re- 
vision, and  made  a  positive  attack  on  the  critics  in  an  article  as  "viva- 
cious" (as  Matthew  Arnold  would  have  said)  as  anything  he  had  written 
since  his  volume  on  Bishop  Colenso.  While  engaged  with  his  colleagues 
in  the  work  of  revising  the  English  version  of  the  Old  Testament,  he  pub- 


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lished  a  volume  of  expository  lectures,  with  the  title,  "The  Argument  of 
the  Book  of  Job  Unfolded." 

Meanwhile  events  occurred  within  a  sister  Presbyterian  Church  and  in 
his  own  Church  which  led  to  new  literary  activity.  The  scholars  of  the 
Congregational  and  Presbyterian  Churches  in  America,  until  lately,  have 
been  slow  to  make  concessions  in  controversies  which  involve  the  authen- 
ticity of  the  Scriptures  or  the  trustworthiness  of  their  historical  sections. 
Perhaps  the  general  attitude  of  American  scholars  is  nowhere  better  ex- 
emplified than  in  the  writings  of  one  of  the  largest-minded,  most  catholic, 
and  most  generously  cultivated  theological  scholars  America  has  pro- 
duced, the  late  Dr.  Henry  B.  Smith,  of  Union  Theological  Seminary.  Let 
any  one  take  up  his  volume  of  essays,  called  "  Faith  and  Philosophy," 
and  his  "  Apologetics,"  and  he  will  see  what  we  mean  by  his  attitude. 
Strauss,  Renan,  the  essays  and  reviews,  agnosticism,  relativity  of 
knowledge,  are  attacked  with  vigor,  and  always  from  the  point  of  view  of 
profound  faith  in  the  historical  trustworthiness  of  the  Bible  and  the  reality 
of  a  supernatural  revelation  authenticated  by  miracles.  But  there  has 
lately  been  manifested  in  Presbyterian  Scotland  and  in  American  Presby- 
terianism  a  strong  disposition  not  only  to  concede  in  apologetics,  but  to 
treat  concessiveness  as  a  note  of  scholarship.  This  disposition  has  shown 
itself  notably  in  Biblical  discussions,  and  most  notably  in  discussions  con- 
cerning the  Old  Testament.  Along  with  this  has  appeared  what  is  scarcely 
exaggeration  to  describe  as  a  tendency  to  solve  critical  questions  by 
counting  scholarly  noses  ;  and  the  rule  has  appeared  to  prevail  that,  if  the 
nose  has  a  German  owner,  even  if  the  owner  should  be  only  a  privat 
docent,  it  ought  rightfully  to  be  counted  as  at  least  two. 

Dr.  Green's  attitude  in  this  controversy  has  been  precisely  like  the  at- 
titude of  Dr.  Henry  B.  Smith  in  the  controversies  in  which  he  appeared 
as  a  Christian  apologist.  Christian  scholarship  loses  none  of  its  scholarly 
quality  by  being  joined  to  profound  Christian  conviction.  Indeed,  in 
these  Old  Testament  discussions  Dr.  Green's  scholarship  has  been  strik- 
ingly exhibited.  For  he  has  not  been  exposed,  as  those  on  the  other  side 
have  been,  to  the  temptation  to  which  some  of  them  have  yielded ;  the 
temptation,  namely,  to  substitute  easier  reportorial  work  for  serious  and 
original  investigation.  Whatever  may  be  said  of  the  present  state  or  of 
the  probable  outcome  of  the  discussion,  the  contributions  made  to  it  by 
Dr.  Green  are  strongly  marked  by  the  qualities  derived  from  earnest  and 
thorough  and  independent  study  of  the  questions  in  debate.  He  was  one 
of  the  first  to  appear  in  defence  of  the  truthfulness  of  the  Old  Testament 
history  after  the  publication  of  Professor  W.  Robertson  Smith's  lectures. 
Besides  his  contributions  to  the  periodical  press,  he  has  published  four 
volumes  on  the  Old  Testament  controversy,  "  Moses  and  the  Prophets," 
"  The  Hebrew  Feasts,"  "  The  Higher  Criticism  of  the  Pentateuch,"  and 
"  The  Unity  of  the  Book  of  Genesis."     It  does  not  fall  within  the  score  of 


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this  paper  to  review  or  even  to  characterize  these  volumes.  That  may 
well  be  left  to  the  experts.  But  we  cannot  leave  them  without  two  re- 
marks. The  first  is  that  in  these  volumes  the  American  Church  has  met 
the  attacks  lately  made  on  the  trustworthiness  of  the  Bible  with  as  much 
vigor  and  ability  as  she  has  ever  displayed  in  resisting  attacks  upon  her 
faith.  The  other  is  that,  if  at  the  close  of  the  present  controversy  the 
American  Churches  shall  retain  their  faith  in  the  Old  Testament  history, 
they  will  be  likely  to  regard  Dr.  Green  more  than  any  other  scholar  as 
their  foremost  representative  in  the  conflict. 

We  have  little  space  left  in  which  to  speak  of  Dr.  Green  as  a  teacher. 
His  pupils  will  all  remember  him  as  always  thoroughly  in  earnest,  always 
clear,  always  strong,  always  under  the  sway  of  a  sense  of  duty,  always 
ready  to  work  to  the  point  of  exhaustion,  and  always  demanding  sincere 
and  sufficient  work  from  his  class.  Partly  because  of  the  seriousness  of 
his  manner,  and  partly  because  of  the  strained  attention  which  the  sub- 
ject and  the  teacher  united  in  exacting,  the  most  of  his  pupils  have  at  first 
regarded  him  with  a  feeling  of  awe  akin  to  fear.  Many  a  student,  during 
Dr.  Green's  earlier  and  middle  career,  has  felt  that  in  his  class-room, 
certainly,  the  students  were  not  "  under  grace,"  but  "  under  law."  It  ap- 
peared to  many  of  them  that  the  elder  dispensation  had  indeed  been  re- 
vived. Not  a  few  of  his  pupils,  in  moments  of  confidential  intercourse, 
have  whispered  to  their  fellows  that  this  was  their  feeling.  But  no  teacher 
has  enjoyed  more  unanimously  or  more  profoundly  the  respect  of  all  he 
has  taught.  No  theological  teacher  has  held  steadily  before  his  pupils  by 
word  and  life  a  higher  ideal  of  the  student's  and  the  minister's  calling,  or 
impressed  it  upon  them  more  strongly  and  abidingly.  And  in  all  he  has 
taught  he  has  been  as  clear  and  strong  and  scholarly  as  any  teacher 
Princeton  has  ever  had.  No  one  of  all  the  succession  from  Archibald 
Alexander  onward  has  enjoyed  a  larger  measure  of  respect. 

And  whenever  any  student  for  any  worthy  reason  has  been  brought 
into  personal  contact  with  Dr.  Green,  especially  if  he  has  happened  to  be 
in  perplexity  or  sorrow  of  any  kind,  there  has  been  added  to  this  high  re- 
spect an  affection  for  whose  expression  the  student  has  always  wished  only 
the  opportunity.  We  venture  to  say  that  pride  in  Dr.  Green's  ability  and 
attainments  and  respect  for  his  lofty,  sincere,  and  simple  character  are 
not  more  profound  or  general  among  his  students  than  affection  for  a  per- 
sonality as  modest,  as  gentle,  as  sympathetic,  and  every  way  as  engaging 
as  that  of  any  theological  teacher  in  the  country. 

We  congratulate  the  large  body  of  his  indebted  students  on  the  oppor- 
tunity afforded  them  by  the  coming  celebration  to  give  expression  to  their 
pride,  their  respect,  and  their  love.  We  congratulate  the  Christian  Church 
and  the  American  State  on  his  long  and  eminent  career.  We  congratulate 
the  Presbyterian  Church  for  this  new  opportunity  to  honor  a  clergyman 
on  whom  it  has  already  conferred  its  highest  official  dignity.     We  con- 


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gratulate  Princeton  University  that  it  is  permitted  to  send  its  greetings  to 
the  eminent  scholar  whom  it  once  called  to  its  Presidency.  We  congratu- 
late Dr.  Green  on  the  distinguished  services  he  has  been  able  to  render 
to  learning  and  to  truth  ;  and  on  the  love,  and  the  honor,  and  the  troops 
of  friends  that  are  his  to-day.     Serus  in  caelum  redeat ! 

The  Evangelist  of  April  30,  1896. 
PROFESSOR   WILLIAM  HENRY   GREEN'S   JUBILEE. 

Fifty  years  of  active  scholarly  life  are  not  given  to  many  men,  though 
we  believe  that  the  continuous  employment  of  the  mind  and  heart  on  the 
greatest  subjects  is  conducive  to  longevity.  One  who  has  given  the  sub- 
ject special  attention  tells  us  that  the  necrological  list  published  annually 
in  the  minutes  of  the  General  Assembly  testifies  every  year  to  the  long 
life  in  the  land  of  those  who,  in  the  Presbyterian  Church,  as  pastors, 
missionaries,  and'professors  are,  at  least  by  the  character  of  their  work, 
removed  measurably  from  the  feverish  strife  after  material  things,  and 
compelled  to  think  of  the  things  that  are  unseen  and  eternal.  Only  a 
week  or  two  ago  we  extended  our  congratulations  to  our  beloved  brother 
and  contributor,  Theodore  Ledyard  Cuyler,  on  the  completion  of  his  half 
century  of  clerical  and  literary  labors,  and  we  have  now  great  pleasure  in 
offering  congratulations  of  a  like  character  to  one  whose  work,  though 
somewhat  different,  has  had  in  view  the  advancement  of  the  same  high 
interests,  and  has  been  performed  with  a  like  sincerity  and  a  like  loyalty 
to  the  vision  of  the  truth  vouchsafed  him.  We  are  led  thus  to  unite  the 
names  of  Dr.  Theodore  L.  Cuyler  and  Dr.  William  Henry  Green,  not 
only  because  their  labors  have  covered  the  same  period,  and  because  they 
are  both  men  of  high  character,  but  also  because  they  were  fellow- 
students  at  Princeton  Theological  Seminary. 

The  great  divines  of  the  earlier  periods  of  the  Congregational  and 
Presbyterian  Churches  in  this  country  were  above  all  systematic  theolo- 
gians. The  discussions  which  agitated  these  communions  during  the  last 
century  and  the  earlier  half  of  the  present  century,  were  within  the  limits 
of  dogmatics.  With  what  earnestness  of  purpose  the  great  New  England 
ministers  of  that  whole  period  gave  themselves  to  the  study  of  the  loci 
communes  of  the  reformed  theology,  and  with  what  ability  and  spirit  they 
either  expounded  and  defended  their  "  improvements  of  Calvinism,"  or 
resisted  them  and  vindicated  the  elder  views  !  The  day  will  never  come 
when  the  names  of  these  men  will  not  be  mentioned  with  profound  re- 
spect. They  are  venerable  and  renowned — John  Norton,  of  Ipswich, 
Mass.  ;  Willard,  President  of  Harvard  ;  the  two  Presidents  Edwards, 
father  and  son  ;  Bellamy,  Smalley,  Samuel  Hopkins,  Nathaniel  Emmons, 
Timothy  Dwight,  and,  though  the  first  President  of  Princeton  College,  a 
New  England  man  by  birth  and  education  (an  ancestor,  too,  of  the  sub- 


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ject  of  this  editorial),  Jonathan  Dickinson,  of  Elizabethtown,  N.  J.  It  was 
on  theological  grounds  that  the  Congregational  Churches  were  divided 
into  two  communions,  that  the  Plan  of  Union  between  Congregationalism 
and  Presbyterianism  was  formed  and  afterward  abrogated,  and  that 
the  Presbyterian  Church  in  1837  became  two  bodies. 

But  early  in  the  present  century  there  were  indications  that  there 
would  be  a  change  in  the  central  subject  of  theological  study  and  debate  ; 
that  Biblical  questions  would  become  the  burning  questions  among  our 
scholars.  As  the  century  passed  beyond  its  first  third,  these  indications 
became  more  marked.  By  that  time  Biblical  scholars  like  Moses 
Stuart,  of  Andover  ;  Andrews  Norton,  of  Cambridge  Divinity  School,  and 
Addison  Alexander,  of  Princeton,  were  attracting  increased  attention 
from  the  ministers  of  the  country.  Edward  Robinson  was  making  plans 
for  his  Palestinian  researches,  and  George  Bush  and  Albert  Barnes  were 
preparing  their  popular  commentaries.  As  we  can  now  see,  a  movement 
was  taking  place  which,  before  the  close  of  the  century,  would  distribute 
parties  in  the  Churches  upon  entirely  new  lines,  would  give  a  new  charac- 
ter to  the  preaching  of  the  ministers,  and  create  a  new  literature  for  the 
shelves  of  pastors'  libraries.  It  is  difficult  for  one  under  fifty  years  of 
age  to  appreciate  the  change  in  sermon,  library,  debate,  and  ecclesias- 
tical parties,  which  has  resulted  from  the  revival  of  Biblical  study,  to 
which  we  have  briefly  referred.  The  importance  of  the  celebration 
of  Dr.  Green's  fifty  years  of  active  labor  as  a  Biblical  scholar,  writer,  and 
teacher  is  due,  in  part  at  least,  to  the  fact  that  he  is  one  of  the  oldest 
scholars,  and  one  of  the  most  eminent  as  well,  who  have  promoted  this 
revival.     .     .     . 

Dr.  Green's  charming  simplicity  and  sincerity  of  character  have  won 
for  him  the  love  of  many  generations  of  students,  counting  a  class  as  a 
generation.  All  of  them  speak  of  him  with  enthusiasm  as  a  teacher,  all 
venerate  him  as  a  great  and  good  man,  and  all  love  him  as  their  friend. 
Fortunate  is  the  teacher  who,  as  he  approaches  the  close  of  a  long  and 
great  career,  can  gather  about  him  so  many  hundreds  whom  he  has  in- 
spired and  instructed  as  Dr.  Green  will  have  around  him  on  May  5th. 
There  is  no  higher  kind  of  joy  than  his  will  be,  when,  on  that  day, 
pastors  and  missionaries  and  teachers,  from  all  over  the  world,  will  give 
expression  to  their  gratitude  for  his  high  teaching  and  high  example. 
Besides  these  will  come  his  co-laborers  in  other  institutions,  representatives 
from  the  College  at  which  he  was  graduated,  and  from  the  College  in 
Princeton  of  which  he  has  so  long  been  a  Trustee.  The  Evangelist  gladly 
anticipates  them  in  their  congratulations,  their  eulogies,  and  their  best 
wishes,  and  cordially  offers  its  tribute  to  the  great  Biblical  scholar,  the 
eminent  divine,  the  able  apologist,  the  honored  theological  teacher,  but, 
above  all,  to  the  noble,  simple,  sincere,  and  modest  Christian  man. 


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The  Presbyterian  Journal  of  April  30,   1896. 

THE    CELEBRATION    AT    PRINCETON    SEMINARY. 

We  take  great  pleasure  in  calling  attention  to  the  great  teacher  and 
divine,  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  whose  connection  as  a  theological  In- 
structor with  Princeton  Seminary  is  so  soon  to  be  celebrated. 

Dr.  William  Henry  Green  has  had  an  exceptional  career.  He  was  only 
fifteen  when  he  was  graduated  at  Lafayette  College.  He  had  achieved 
high  honors  as  a  student,  and  the  College  at  once  employed  him  as  a 
tutor.  Two  years  later  he  began  to  study  for  the  ministry,  but  a  year  only 
had  been  passed  in  the  Seminary  when  he  was  called  again  to  Easton  to 
teach  mathematics.  At  the  close  of  another  year  he  was  back  at  Prince- 
ton, where  he  completed  his  theological  course  without  further  interrup- 
tion. The  Seminary  now  made  him  Instructor  in  Hebrew.  This  was  fifty 
years  ago,  and  he  was  not  yet  twenty-two  years  old.  The  Second  Church, 
in  Princeton,  had  just  been  organized,  and  he  preached  statedly  in  its  pul- 
pit while  performing  the  duties  of  his  chair.  His  earnest  and  able  preach- 
ing led  to  calls  from  several  prominent  churches,  and  when  he  was  twenty- 
four  he  accepted  the  invitation  to  the  pulpit  of  the  Central  Church, 
Philadelphia.  Two  years  later  the  General  Assembly  sent  him  back  to 
Princeton  to  fill  the  chair  of  Old  Testament  and  Oriental  Literature. 
From  that  time  on  he  has  lived  in  Princeton  and  filled  this  professorship, 
with  what  ability  and  fidelity  and  signal  success  both  the  Church  and  the 
world  of  Old  Testament  scholars  know. 

The  rapid  development  of  his  powers  as  a  teacher,  preacher,  and 
student  was,  of  course,  exceptional,  but  so  healthy  was  it  that,  so  far  as 
we  are  aware,  it  never  excited  the  fear  of  those  who  knew  him  that  it 
would  be  followed  by  a  brief  and  unfruitful  period  of  activity.  The  old 
Biblical  Repertory  opened  its  pages  to  him,  and  his  studies  furnished  him 
subjects.  Between  185 1  and  1867  he  wrote  for  it  forty-one  articles  on  a 
variety  of  themes,  which  no  one  could  have  embraced  who  was  not  en- 
dowed with  remarkable  gifts,  and  who  had  not  made  great  attainments  in 
his  department.  Besides  these  he  wrote  during  the  same  period  a  number 
of  papers  for  philological  journals.  These  were  the  fruit  of  constant 
thought  and  study  in  the  sphere  of  language.  Meanwhile  he  was  active 
as  preacher  and  professor  and  in  the  administration  of  the  Seminary. 
All  who  were  brought  into  contact  with  him,  whether  as  students,  or 
colleagues,  or  hearers,  respected  his  high  and  sincere  character,  his  gifts, 
and  learning.  He  made  his  students  work  hard,  for  he  worked  hard  him- 
self ;  and  he  impressed  upon  them  a  faith  in  the  elder  revelation  like  that 
which  he  himself  enjoyed.     .     .     . 

His  life  has  been  a  full  one.  It  would  be  hard  to  exaggerate  the  im- 
portance of  the  work  he  has  done.  He  has  the  highest  respect  of  the 
entire  Church,  and  his  students  will  gather  in  great  numbers  to  testify  not 


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only  their  respect,  but  their  deep  and  warm  affection  on  May  5th  next. 
Such  a  celebration  has  special  significance.  We  are  often  told  that 
ours  is  a  material  age  and  that  we  are  a  materialized  people,  but  the  wide 
interest  which  the  proposal  thus  to  honor  this  modest  scholar  and  divine 
has  awakened  shows  that  there  is  a  large  proportion  of  the  people  of  the 
United  States  not  wholly  given  to  the  seen  and  the  temporal. 

The  Presbyterian  Messenger  of  April  30,  1896. 

DR.    GREEN'S  JUBILEE. 

As  already  announced  in  these  columns,  it  is  the  intention  of  the  Di- 
rectors of  Princeton  Seminary  to  celebrate  on  May  5th  the  fiftieth  anniver- 
sary of  the  appointment  of  Professor  William  Henry  Green  as  an  Instructor 
in  that  institution,  and  the  approach  of  the  day  makes  it  appropriate  for 
his  many  admirers,  even  outside  of  the  ranks  of  the  Princeton  Alumni, 
to  give  expression  to  their  sense  of  the  high  degree  in  which  Dr.  Green 
has  merited  such  a  celebration. 

The  Alumni  of  Princeton  Seminary,  scattered  throughout  the  world, 
will  turn  their  thoughts  with  especial  affection  on  next  Tuesday  to  their 
alma  mater,  and  will  do  honor,  with  one  consent,  to  their  beloved  and 
famous  teacher.  They  may  well  do  so.  Few  of  them  now  remain  who 
have  not  sat  at  his  feet.  They  know  that  his  great  learning  has  been  de- 
voted to  their  interests  and  to  the  increase  of  their  usefulness  in  the  king- 
dom of  God.  We  doubt  not  that  they  are  ready  to  thank  him  even  for  the 
hard  lessons  he  imposed  on  minds  not  accustomed  to  oriental  tongues  ; 
but  certainly  they  are  ready  to  thank  God  for  the  work  which  he  has  done 
in  defence  of  the  Scriptures  and  for  the  influence  which  his  name  has 
given  to  their  Seminary.  We  do  not  grudge  them  the  natural  pride  in  the 
possession  of  one  whose  long  career  as  a  teacher  has  been  distinguished 
by  scholarship  of  the  first  rank,  and  withal  by  a  simple-hearted  love  of 
truth  and  a  genial  disposition,  which  has  made  him  loved  as  well  as  hon- 
ored by  the  many  pupils  who  have  come  under  his  care. 

Dr.  Green,  however,  belongs  to  the  whole  Church  as  well  as  to  Prince- 
ton Seminary.  As  Moderator  of  the  General  Assembly  in  1891  he  re- 
ceived the  highest  honor  in  the  gift  of  his  denomination.  As  a  leading 
member  of  the  American  Revision  Committee  he  did  valuable  service  for 
all  readers  and  students  of  the  English  Bible.  His  contributions  to  the 
critical  study  of  the  Old  Testament  have  given  him  still  greater  promi- 
nence, especially  since  criticism  has  busied  itself  with  that  portion  of  the 
Bible.  Whatever  critical  opinions  men  may  have — whether  they  adopt 
the  new  views  or,  with  Dr.  Green,  defend  the  old— they  must  acknowl- 
edge at  once  his  scholarship  and  his  candor.  His  books  are  models  of 
critical  argument.  They  evince  entire  familiarity  with  opposing  views 
and  perfect  fairness  in  representing  them.    Dr.  Green  never  rests  his  case 


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on  rhetoric  nor  supports  it  by  trivial  reason.  He  is  solid,  thorough, 
learned,  and  honest.  He  is  to-day  the  leading  champion  in  the  world  of 
the  traditional  view  of  the  Old  Testament.  Hence  we  take  pleasure  in 
uniting  with  Princeton  Alumni  in  tendering  him  our  cordial  congratula- 
tions and  in  the  prayer  that  he  may  yet  be  spared  many  years  to  the 
Seminary  and  the  Church. 

The  Christian  Intelligencer  of  May  6,  1896. 

Professor  Green,  of  Princeton,  whose  Jubilee  as  a  teacher  in  Biblical 
literature  is  celebrated  this  week,  has  been  a  tower  of  strength  to  the 
thousands  in  evangelical  churches  who  know  from  experience  the  value  of 
the  Bible  and  have  been  somewhat  alarmed  by  the  persistent  assaults  of 
the  higher  critics.  Their  faith  has  been  supported  by  the  knowledge  that 
Dr.  Green  believed  that  Moses  wrote  the  Pentateuch,  David  the  Psalms 
ascribed  to  him,  and  other  authors  the  books  which  bear  their  names. 
They  knew  that  Dr.  Green  was  as  good  a  scholar  as  the  higher  critics, 
and  a  great  deal  more  sober,  judicious,  and  trustworthy  than  many  of  those 
whose  speculations  he  rejected,  and  it  was  enough  for  them  that  he  found 
no  reason  for  accepting  the  destructive  higher  criticism.  There  are  thou- 
sands of  Christians  throughout  the  country  who  thank  God  to-day  for  Dr. 
Green. 

The  Watchman  (Boston)  of  May  7,   1896. 

The  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  connection  of  Professor  William  H. 
Green  with  the  Hebrew  department  of  Princeton  Theological  Semi- 
nary is  to  be  appropriately  celebrated  this  week.  In  another  column  we 
review  his  last  theological  work.  Professor  Green  stands  at  the  very  head 
of  Hebrew  scholars  in  this  country,  and  he  has  a  very  high  reputation  in 
Europe.  Like  our  own  Professor  Osgood,  he  has  never  been  carried  away 
by  the  theories  of  the  "  Higher  Criticism,"  and  has  brought  to  the  defence 
of  conservative  views  of  the  Scriptures  enormous  learning  and  singular 
argumentative  power.  A  few  years  ago  Professor  Green,  at  our  request, 
contributed  to  these  columns  a  series  of  articles  on  the  new  critical  theo- 
ries, which  were  at  once  recognized  as  masterly  and  convincing.  This  is 
the  kind  of  work,  in  addition  to  the  duties  of  his  chair,  that  he  has  been 
doing  through  all  the  years.  The  Presbyterian  Church  does  well  to 
honor  a  scholar  who  has  stood  like  a  breakwater  against  the  advancing 
tide  of  critical  novelties.  In  his  defence  of  conservative  views  of  the 
Scriptures  Professor  Green  has  often  been  charged  with  a  controlling 
prejudice  in  favor  of  the  received  opinions.  His  opponents,  however,  as- 
sume that  they  discuss  these  great  questions  with  perfectly  candid  and 
open  minds.  There  could  not  be  a  greater  mistake.  Nothing  can  be 
plainer  than   that,  to  quote  the  language  of  Professor  George  P.  Fisher, 


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who  certainly  is  not  a  purblind  traditionalist,  "  a  great  deal  of  the  current 
criticism  of  the  historical  writings  of  the  Bible  is  affected  by  a  pre-existing 
bias  against  the  supernatural  element  in  these  narratives.  There  is  at 
the  start  a  prejudice  which  warps  the  judgment  respecting  their  date  and 
authorship  and  general  credibility." 

The  Presbyterian  of  May  13,  1896. 

PRINCETON    DOING    HONOR    TO    DR.    GREEN. 

[editorial  correspondence.] 

The  close  of  the  term  at  the  Theological  Seminary  in  Princeton  had  this 
year  an  additional  interest  because  of  its  association  with  the  fiftieth  anni- 
versary of  the  election  of  the  Rev.  William  Henry  Green  to  a  professor- 
ship in  the  institution.  When  we  reached  the  chapel  that  morning  the 
services  connected  with  the  graduation  of  more  than  seventy  young  men 
were  well  over,  and  large  groups  of  black-coated  men  were  scattered 
round,  awaiting  the  signal  to  fall  into  line  and  march  to  Alexander  Hall,  on 
the  College  grounds,  where  the  Jubilee  services  were  appointed  to  be  held. 
Within  the  chapel,  we  were  told,  the  simple  services  accompanying  the 
dismissal  of  the  senior  class  to  the  great  field  for  which  they  had  been 
preparing,  had  been  held.  The  last  hymn  had  been  sung  by  the  members 
of  the  class,  and  words  of  wise  and  cheerful  counsel  had  been  spoken  to 
them  by  Dr.  George  D.  Baker,  of  Philadelphia,  as  the  representative  of 
the  Board  of  Directors.  These  exercises  were  begun  early,  and  were 
made  somewhat  briefer  than  usual  that  the  day  might  be  given  to  a  service 
such  as  Princeton  has  not  seen  since  that  April  day  in  the  year  1872,  when 
good  men  and  men  of  renown  in  theological  circles  gathered  together 
there  to  do  honor  to  the  long  and  faithful  work  wrought  in  the  same  insti- 
tution and  for  the  same  space  of  time  by  Dr.  Charles  Hodge. 

To  one  who  was  a  spectator  on  both  these  remarkable  occasions  it 
seemed  that  the  only  change  visible  was  that  Princeton  has  grown  seem- 
ingly more  academic  in  her  ways  than  she  was  in  the  former  days.  The 
black  gowns  and  the  mortar-board  caps  were  very  abundant  in  the  company 
this  year,  and  here  and  there  a  doctor's  hood  of  buff  or  scarlet,  intermin- 
gled with  ribbons  of  blue,  gave  variety  to  the  scene.  The  procession  took 
its  way,  in  quiet  and  sedate  fashion,  to  the  College  ground*  '  d  filed  into 
the  new  and  spacious  Commencement  Hall,  which  b.ars  the  name  of 
Alexander.  The  wide  galleries  were  filled  by  ladies,  who  had  been  there 
awaiting  our  coming.  The  audience  soon  settled  down  in  their  places  in 
the  great,  beautiful,  roomy  hall,  and  Rev.  Dr.  Gosman  sat  in  the  marble 
chair,  over  which  is  thrown  a  canopy,  as  the  presiding  officer  of  the  occa- 
sion. Very  soon  the  venerable  form  of  Dr.  William  Henry  Green  was 
seen  slowly  making  his  way  to  his  chair  in  the  front.     As  he  came  near, 


170  APPENDIX 

the  whole  assembly  rose,  and  a  great  cheer  went  up,  or  went  round.  The 
guest  of  the  day  was  in  the  midst  of  the  company  of  his  pupils  and  friends. 
There  was  something  of  weakness  in  his  step,  and  there  was  more  than 
usual  pallor  on  the  cheek,  but  the  face  and  the  form  were  those  well  known 
to  the  successive  generations  of  students  before  whom  he  had  walked  and 
unto  whom  he  had  "opened  the  Scriptures."  The  hymn,  "  I  love  Thy 
Kingdom,  Lord,"  was  sung,  a  very  suitable  prayer  offered  by  Dr.  Lans- 
ing, of  the  New  Brunswick  Seminary,  and  Dr.  Gosman  then  very  fitly 
introduced,  in  a  brief  address,  the  services  of  the  day,  and  gave  utterance 
to  the  strong  confidence  and  abiding  love  felt  for  Dr.  Green  in  the  various 
Boards  which  control  the  Seminary. 

We  cannot  follow  the  various  speakers  of  the  morning  in  the  addresses 
in  which  they  rehearsed  the  work  of  Dr.  Green's  life  and  gathered  up  the 
results  of  his  long  career  of  study  and  instruction.  Dr.  Mead,  of  Hartford 
Theological  Seminary,  gave  us  a  very  careful  estimate  of  the  value  of  Dr. 
Green's  critical  labors,  especially  in  his  masterly  dealing  with  the  various 
phases  of  the  divisive  and  conjectural  criticism  of  the  Old  Testament, 
which  furnishes  so  many  of  the  burning  questions  of  the  times.  Here  Dr. 
Green's  unquestioned  scholarship  in  all  that  pertains  to  Biblical  criticism 
gave  him  the  place  of  one  who  spoke  by  authority.  His  position  was 
always  up  among  the  first ;  and  Dr.  Mead  closed  his  fine  and  most  discrim- 
inating tribute  to  the  Professor  with  the  measured  words  :  "  It  cannot  be 
doubted  that  among  the  higher  critics  who,  with  patient  toil  and  profound 
scholarship,  lead  in  the  maintenance  of  sound  views  of  the  Bible  and  aim 
to  strengthen  the  foundations  of  a  reasonable  faith,  will  always  stand  the 
name  of  William  Henry  Green." 

Dr.  Mead  was  followed  by  Dr.  McCurdy,  of  Montreal,  who  is  a  son  of 
Princeton,  and  a  pupil,  in  former  days,  of  Dr.  Green.  His  task  was  to 
assign  Dr.  Green's  place  in  "  Semitic  Scholarship,"  and  to  describe  the 
methods  by  which  Hebrew  was  taught  in  the  Seminary  in  past  years.  His 
opening  sentence  is  worthy  of  quotation  :  "  It  is  a  great  thing  to  have  been 
a  teacher  fifty  years  ;  it  is  greater  to  have  been  a  teacher  in  Princeton 
Seminary  for  so  long  a  time,  and  it  is  greater  still  to  have  been  a  teacher 
of  Hebrew.  For  Hebrew  lies  at  the  bottom  of  things — at  least,  of  the 
things  which  are  worth  most  at  Princeton." 

President  Patton,  of  Princeton  College,  came  forward  when  Dr. 
McCurdy  had  closed,  and  the  applause  which  greeted  him  was  hearty  and 
long  continued.  The  high-water  mark  of  sincere  and  affectionate  eulogy 
was  reached  when  Dr.  Patton  said,  in  one  of  the  earliest  of  his  sentences  : 
"  I  am  glad  to  stand  here  to  do  honor  to  a  man  whom  I  venerate  as  I 
venerate  no  other  living  man."  That  sentence  went  to  the  heart  of  the 
great  audience.  It  quickened,  while  it  fittingly  expressed  the  reverential 
feelings  of  hundreds  of  men  sitting  before  him,  many  of  them  in  the  midst 
of  life's  toils  or  going  down  to  old  age,  who  had  sat  in  their  youth  at  the 


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feet  of  this  master  in  sacred  learning.  Dr.  Patton's  speech  was  very  sug- 
gestive and  incisive,  as  his  manner  of  speech  always  is.  When  it  closed 
the  applause  was  loud  and  long. 

Ere  it  was  hushed  Dr.  Green  was  on  his  feet.  We  had  hardly  dared 
to  hope  that  his  voice  would  be  heard,  save  in  brief  acknowledgment  of 
the  honors  done  to  him.  But  his  first  words  reassured  us.  We  listened 
to  the  old  and  well-remembered  tones.  "  Fellow-Alumni,"  said  he,  and 
we  rose  to  our  feet  to  greet  him,  and  stood  while  his  first  sentences  were 
spoken.  Thankfulness  for  the  tributes  paid  to  him,  and  modest  accept- 
ance of  the  kindly  words  spoken  of  him  and  of  his  work,  accompanied  by 
a  re-assertion  of  the  old  position  of  Princeton  Seminary  in  regard  to  the 
Word  of  God,  were  the  salient  points  of  his  speech,  and  he  closed  by  ex- 
pressing his  firm  faith  in  the  future  of  the  venerable  Seminary,  and  then, 
looking  round,  said  :  "  May  the  Word  of  God,  my  dear  friends,  abide  in 
you,  and  crown  you  all  with  its  richest  blessings." 

Following  this  most  affecting  scene  were  words  of  congratulation  and 
of  kindly  interest  from  representatives  of  other  institutions,  colleges,  uni- 
versities, and  theological  schools.  Dr.  Booth,  the  Moderator  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly,  as  was  fit,  pronounced  words  of  commendation  upon  the 
long  work  of  this  faithful  servant  of  the  whole  Church.  "The  Church," 
said  Dr.  Booth,  "  which  knows  its  own  mind  and  clings  to  its  Bible." 
The  benediction  of  the  Southern  Presbyterian  Church  was  not  withheld 
from  one  who  had  assisted  to  train  many  of  its  ministers,  and  it  was 
brought  by  Dr.  McPheeters,  of  the  Columbia  Seminary.  This  was  a  most 
grateful  feature  of  this  happy  occasion.  Dr.  Warfield,  President  of  La- 
fayette College,  spoke  for  the  College  and  in  recognition  of  the  services  of 
its  distinguished  graduate  ;  and  the  Trustees  of  Princeton  University  were 
represented  by  Henry  M.  Alexander,  LL.D.,  of  New  York  City,  who 
claimed  to  be  there  from  hereditary  right.  He  said  to  Dr.  Green  that  he 
was  "  instructed  by  the  Trustees  of  the  University  to  express  their  admi- 
ration of  your  character  and  achievements  and  the  hope  that  you  may  con- 
tinue to  add  glory  to  your  own  name  and  that  of  Princeton  Seminary." 

The  final  congratulatory  address  came  from  a  representative  of  a  com- 
mittee which  had  done  its  work  and  ceased  to  be,  but  of  which  Dr.  Green 
had  been  a  conspicuous  member.  The  Committee  of  American  Scholars, 
who  had  in  charge  the  revision  of  the  Old  Testament  Scriptures,  made 
Dr.  Green  their  Chairman,  and  Dr.  Howard  Osgood,  Professor  in  Roch- 
ester University  and  a  member  of  that  committee,  told  us  of  the  ease 
and  courtesy  with  which  he  presided  over  the  long  deliberation  of  the  com- 
mittee, and  the  respectful  attention  which  was  always  given  to  his 
suggestions  by  its  members. 

A  lunch  was  served  at  University  Hotel,  and  the  afternoon  was  spent  in 
listening  to  reminiscences  of  Dr.  Green  in  his  youth  and  his  maturer 
years.     Dr.  Cattell,  ex-President  of  Lafayette  College,  opened  the  speak- 


172  APPENDIX 

ing  in  the  afternoon,  which  was  somewhat  less  formal  than  in  the  morning. 
Dr.  Cattell  described  Dr.  Green  as  the  young  collegian  who  read  much 
was  not  severely  studious,  and  was  ready  generally  for  a  game  of  chess, 
but  who  was  found  always  at  the  head  of  the  class.  Dr.  Cuyler,  of 
Brooklyn,  followed  with  reminiscences  of  "  Dr.  Green  as  a  Classmate," 
recalling  him  as  a  tall,  modest,  manly  youth,  twenty  years  of  age,  who 
"  took  to  Greek  as  if  he  had  been  born  in  Athens,  and  to  Hebrew  as  if  he 
had  been  the  son  of  a  rabbi  in  Jerusalem."  The  reminiscences  of  Dr. 
A.  A.  E.  Taylor,  of  Columbus,  O.,  were  given  in  connection  with 
the  theme,  "  The  Young  Professor."  In  his  first  years  the  youthful 
teacher  had  to  face  such  men  as  were  afterward  known  as  Dr.  Robert 
Watts,  of  Belfast ;  Dr.  James  P.  Boyce,  of  South  Carolina  ;  Caspar  Wis- 
tar  Hodge,  afterward  Professor  in  the  Seminary,  and  Isadore  Loewen- 
thal,  the  learned  Jewish  convert,  who  died  in  India.  He  proved  equal  to 
the  task  which  he  had  accepted.  Dr.  Griffin,  of  Johns  Hopkins  University, 
in  Baltimore,  came  next,  speaking  of  "  The  Established  Teacher,"  and 
Rev.  Dr.  John  Fox,  of  Brooklyn,  of  "The  Learned  Doctor."  The  whole 
service  was  brought  back  into  the  closeness  and  intimacy  of  a  family  circle, 
when  Dr.  William  M.  Paxton  concluded  all  the  words  of  reverence 
and  loyalty  which  have  been  laid  at  Dr.  Green's  feet  by  an  affectionate 
description  of  the  man  and  the  scholar  as  the  President  of  the  Faculty  of 
the  Seminary.  Then,  rising,  the  great  assembly  received  the  benediction 
from  the  lips  of  Canon  Mason,  Professor  of  Divinity  in  the  University  of 
Cambridge,  England. 

We  left  Princeton  as  the  shadows  of  the  evening  were  falling,  thankful 
for  the  day  of  enjoyment,  thankful  for  the  institution  which  has  grown 
into  such  strength  and  usefulness,  and  thankful  that  we  had  been  per- 
mitted to  witness  the  close  of  a  half  century  of  devout  and  conscientious 
service  rendered  to  the  beloved  Seminary  by  such  men  as  Charles  Hodge 
and  William  Henry  Green. 

The  New  York  Observer  of  May  14,  1896. 

PRINCETON   HONORS   DR.    GREEN. 

Tuesday,  May  5th,  was  a  high  day  at  Princeton,  and  a  memorable  one 
for  the  whole  Presbyterian  Church.  The  occasion  was  the  eighty-fourth 
commencement  of  the  Theological  Seminary,  and  the  fiftieth  anniversary 
of  the  appointment  of  William  Henry  Green,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  as  Instructor. 
To  Princeton  the  tribes  of  attached  Alumni  and  visiting  friends  went  up  in 
full  force.  Quantity  and  quality  were  there.  All  day  Monday  multitudes 
of  visitors  kept  coming  in,  and  on  Tuesday  itself  special  trains  ran  to  ac- 
commodate the  throng.  Though  the  numerous  black  coats  of  the  visiting 
clergy  tended  to  give  a  sombre  aspect  to  affairs,  the  occasion  was  not  at 
all  a  gloomy  one.     It  was  a  festival,  not  a  funeral. 


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At  9  A.M.  the  closing  exercises  of  the  Theological  Seminary  were  held 
in  the  Miller  Chapel.  The  Rev.  Dr.  George  D.  Baker,  of  Philadelphia, 
in  very  manly  and  earnest  fashion,  made  a  brief  address  to  the  graduates. 
Diplomas  were  then  distributed,  and  while  seventy-eight  members  of  the 
graduating  class  remained  standing  in  front  of  the  platform,  the  Rev.  Dr. 
William  M.  Paxton  addressed  them  on  behalf  of  the  Faculty,  pointing  out 
that  the  life  of  the  minister  was  largely  his  sermon,  and  reminiscently 
quoting  the  counsel  which  he  had  received  from  the  godly  Samuel  Miller. 
When  a  student  about  to  take  leave  of  the  Seminary,  Dr.  Miller  urged  the 
young  minister  to  do  two  things,  at  least — to  keep  near  the  throne  of  grace 
and  to  care  for  the  children  of  his  charge.  The  class  hymn  was  then  sung, 
a  brief  meeting  of  the  Alumni  held,  and  the  procession  formed  preparatory 
to  the  exercises  in  Alexander  Hall.  Led  by  Rev.  Dr.  William  M.  Paxton, 
of  the  Seminary,  and  Rev.  Dr.  Robert  Russell  Booth,  Moderator  of  the 
Presbyterian  General  Assembly,  a  long  array  of  gowned  notables,  repre- 
sentatives of  other  institutions,  alumni,  trustees,  professors,  and  students, 
to  the  number  of  about  two  thousand,  proceeded  in  double  column  to  Alex- 
ander Hall,  moving  at  a  slow  and  dignified  pace,  as  though  mindful  of  the 
Princeton  principle  to  make  speed  slowly. 

The  scene  in  the  beautiful  and  spacious  Alexander  Hall  was  most 
striking  and  memorable.  On  the  platform  were  many  men  distinguished 
in  ecclesiastical  and  educational  spheres,  among  them  the  man  whom  all 
delighted  to  honor,  and  who  received  a  perfect  ovation  as  he  took  his 
seat  at  the  right  of  the  chairman.  The  galleries  were  brilliant  with  the 
bright  costumes  of  the  ladies,  while  the  body  of  the  house  was  monoto- 
nously black  with  the  clerical  costumes  of  the  great  mass  of  clergymen. 
When  the  vast  audience  joined  in  singing  the  grand  old  hymn,  "I  love 
Thy  Kingdom,  Lord,"  hearts  as  well  as  lips  moved  with  unfeigned  praise 
and  worship.  After  prayer  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Lansing,  of  New  Brunswick, 
the  opening  address  was  delivered  by  the  venerable  chairman,  Dr.  Abra- 
ham Gosman,  President  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  dealing  with  Dr.  Green's 
services  to  the  Seminary.  This  was  most  appreciative  in  tone,  concluding 
with  the  affectionate  words  :  "  Thanks,  beloved  teacher  and  friend ! " 
The  second  address,  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  M.  Mead,  of  the  Hartford 
Theological  Seminary,  illustrated  in  clear  and  cogent  style,  by  many 
examples,  Dr.  Green's  contributions  to  Biblical  criticism.  Dr.  Mead 
began  by  quoting  the  German  adage,  "Jubilations  are  tribulations," 
and  added,  with  reference  to  the  recipient  of  the  congratulations  of  the 
day  :  "  If  he  deprecates  the  praise,  we  will  praise  him  all  the  more  for  his 
modesty."  And  surely,  if  Dr.  Green  were  not  a  modest  as  well  as  a 
famous  man,  he  would  now  be  puffed  up  beyond  measure,  after  all  the 
commendations  of  his  Jubilee  day.  Dr.  Green,  said  the  speaker,  has 
an  absolute  confidence  that  out  of  the  present  indecisive  condition  of 
things  would  issue  a  final  triumph  for  truth,  and  could  afford  to  laugh  at 


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the  pert  critics  who  can  find  no  "  honest"  criticism  except  in  the  case  of 
the  most  radical  investigators — critics  who  take  the  Pentateuch  to  pieces, 
and  when  the  partition  is  completed,  find  that  it  corresponds  to  the  hy- 
potheses simply  because  it  was  made  by  the  hypotheses.  Dr.  Green  has 
made  it  certain,  said  Dr.  Mead,  that  no  one  can  be  certain  as  to  the 
authorship  of  an  ancient  writing  when  the  sole  means  of  judging  lies  in 
the  writing  itself,  adding  that  the  days  of  excessive  radicalism  are  passing 
away,  and  that  men  now  are  less  afraid  than  formerly  of  believing  what 
their  fathers  believed. 

The  theme,  "  Dr.  Green's  Contribution  to  Semitic  Scholarship,"  was 
treated  of  in  an  address,  greatly  enjoyed  by  the  audience,  delivered  by 
the  Rev.  Dr.  J.  F.  McCurdy,  Professor  in  University  College,  Toronto,  a 
former  student  of  Princeton  Seminary.  Dr.  McCurdy  noted  three  eras  in 
the  history  of  Semitic  instruction  at  Princeton — the  first,  that  introduced 
by  Dr.  Charles  Hodge  himself ;  the  second,  the  period  connected  with  the 
name  of  Dr.  J.  Addison  Alexander ;  and  the  third,  the  period  of  Dr. 
Green's  thorough  and  brilliant  labors.  In  his  critical  review  of  these  eras 
the  speaker  was  on  delicate  ground,  but  he  handled  the  analysis  well, 
as  he  made  it  leap  up  to  a  deserved  tribute  to  Dr.  Green,  who  had  put 
the  crown  of  a  ripe  and  broadened  scholarship  on  the  necessarily  incom- 
pleter  labors  of  others  in  the  particular  field  of  Hebrew.  Dr.  Green,  said 
Dr.  McCurdy,  was  a  scholar  with  whom  philology  was  not  a  love  of 
words,  but  of  the  Word. 

To  say  that  the  address  of  President  Patton,  of  Princeton  University, 
was  the  address  of  the  day  would  be  an  invidious  reflection  on  many  other 
fine  speakers,  but  certainly  no  speaker  moved  the  audience  more  than  did 
he.  Dr.  Patton  is  always  thoughtful,  incisive,  brilliant,  but  his  address  on 
this  occasion  seemed  to  awaken  a  feeling  that  does  not  always  find  expres- 
sion in  his  apt,  telling  speech.  The  theme  assigned  the  President  of  the 
University  was  that  of  Dr.  Green's  services  to  the  Church  at  large.  Dr. 
Patton,  in  his  handling  of  it,  very  properly  stretched  it  out  beyond  the 
bounds  of  Presbyterianism.  He  began  by  saying  that  he  reverenced  Dr. 
Green  as  he  did  no  other  living  man.  As  for  Princeton,  when  she  ceases 
to  be  heard  on  burning  questions  that  affect  evangelical  Christendom,  her 
glory  will  pass  away.  Dr.  Green  was  a  thorough,  painstaking  scholar, 
who  had  narrowed  his  sphere  of  labor  and  thereby  widened  his  influence 
— inasmuch  as  the  best  way  for  any  man  to  serve  the  Church  at  large  is 
to  serve  the  Church  to  which  he  belongs.  As  a  scholar  Professor  Green 
acted  on  the  principle  that  the  way  to  keep  strong  in  the  chair  is  to  keep 
busy  in  the  study  ;  as  a  teacher  he  never  read  his  Bible  to  his  class  with  a 
shake  of  his  head  or  a  shrug  of  his  shoulders.  We  have  plenty  of  men, 
said  Dr.  Patton,  who  can  handle  ideas  and  manipulate  notions,  but  what 
we  need  is  men  of  minute  and  specialized  learning.  A  reference  was 
made,  in  passing,  to  the  "  complicated  algebra"  of  Pentateuchal  analysis. 


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And  yet,  said  the  speaker,  Dr.  Green  has  never  taken  the  view  that  the 
defence  against  the  higher  criticism  has  no  place  in  a  theological  semi- 
nary. He  has  not  stopped  to  ask  :  "  What  would  happen  if  the  critics  are 
right  ?  "  but  has  addressed  himself  to  the  stupendous  task  of  proving  that 
the  critics  are  wrong.  There  exists  no  necessity  for  a  separated  Penta- 
teuch except  that  which  seems  to  be  created  at  the  behest  of  a  natural- 
istic philosophy.  The  concluding  sentences  of  the  address,  to  the  effect 
that  Dr.  Green's  book,  "The  Unity  of  Genesis,"  is  his  masterpiece  in 
the  forensic  sphere,  and  puts  its  author  in  a  foremost  place  among 
the  few  great  apologists  of  the  world,  were  greeted  with  most  vigorous 
applause. 

At  this  point  the  venerable  subject  of  these  eulogies  came  forward  to 
acknowledge  the  compliments  paid  him,  when  immediately  the  great  au- 
dience rose  to  its  feet  and  remained  standing  as  the  learned  professor  ex- 
pressed his  gratitude  in  a  few  earnest  sentences  of  grateful  acknowledg- 
ment. Princeton,  he  said,  does  not  shrink  from  the  most  rigorous  tests 
of  scholarship,  but  is  confident  that  sound  learning  will  ever  go  hand  in 
hand  with  implicit  faith  in  the  sacred  volume. 

After  Dr.  Green  had  concluded  his  feeling  remarks  six  congratulatory 
addresses  were  delivered  by  Rev.  Robert  Russell  Booth,  D.D.,  Moderator 
of  the  General  Assembly,  on  behalf  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  ;  Dr. 
Wm.  M.  McPheeters,  of  Columbia  Theological  Seminary,  on  behalf  of 
sister  churches  ;  Dr.  Willis  J.  Beecher,  of  Auburn  Seminary,  on  behalf  of 
sister  seminaries  ;  President  E.  D.  Warfield,  of  Lafayette  College,  who 
spoke  for  Dr.  Green's  alma  mater  J  Henry  M.  Alexander,  LL.D.,  who 
represented  the  Trustees  of  Princeton  College,  and  the  Rev.  Howard  Os- 
good, of  Rochester  Theological  Seminary,  who  had  served  with  Dr.  Green 
on  the  Old  Testament  Revision  Committee.  Dr.  Booth  declared  that  he 
offered  heartfelt  congratulations  from  the  believing  Presbyterian  Church, 
which  knows  its  own  mind,  and  is  aware  of  the  difference  between  natu- 
ralism and  supernaturalism,  and  that  recognizes  in  Dr.  Green  in  this 
emergency  of  scholarship  a  firm  and  successful  defender  of  the  truth. 
Dr.  McPheeters  thought  that,  if  we  were  not  opposed  on  principle  to 
sacred  places,  Princeton  might  serve  as  a  very  fitting  Mecca  of  Presby- 
terianism.  The  speaker  alluded  to  Dr.  Wm.  Hayes  Ward's  estimate  of 
Dr.  Green  as  the  most  vigorous  defender  of  the  traditional  views — a  man 
who  never  mistook  declamations  for  refutations,  nor  abuse  for  argument. 
Dr.  Warfield  spoke  feelingly  of  Lafayette's  continued  love  for  her  former 
pupil.  Dr.  Osgood  said  that  out  of  thirteen  years  of  discussion  and  con- 
ference relative  to  Old  Testament  questions  no  member  of  the  Revision 
Committee,  a  committee  composed  of  men  of  very  positive  and  variant 
views,  ever  carried  away  the  sting  of  a  single  discourteous  remark  or  sug- 
gestion from  Dr.  Green,  its  chairman.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  congratu- 
latory addresses  reference  was  made  to  the  pile,  perhaps  two  feet  high, 


176  APPENDIX 

of  letters  of  reply  received    from  institutions  and   individuals,   both   in 
Europe  and  America,  expressing  an  interest  in  the  occasion. 

Adjournment  was  then  had  for  dinner.  At  3  P.M.  was  held  a  "  remi- 
niscence meeting."  Dr.  William  C.  Cattell,  formerly  President  of  Lafa- 
yette College,  spoke  of  the  "  Father  of  the  Man,"  and  brought  out  the  curi- 
ous fact  that  the  young  William  Henry  Green  when  a  student  at  Lafayette 
went  to  his  instructor  and  desired  to  be  excused  from  the  study  of  lan- 
guages, for  which  he  said  he  had  no  aptitude  !  But  no  record  exists  of  the 
fact  that  he  ever  sought  to  be  excused  from  or  ever  missed  college 
prayers,  although  these  were  then  held  at  five  o'clock  in  the  morning. 
Dr.  Theodore  L.  Cuyler  then  delivered  a  ringing  speech  on  the  theme, 
"  Our  Fellow  Student,"  referring  to  Dr.  Green  as  a  man  who  took  to 
Greek  as  though  he  had  been  born  in  Athens,  and  to  Hebrew  as  though 
he  were  the  son  of  a  rabbi.  Dr.  A.  A.  E.  Taylor,  of  Columbus,  spoke  of 
"  The  Young  Professor,"  whose  faculty  of  making  a  bee-line  from  his 
lecture-room  to  his  study  was  prophetic  of  the  direct  methods  of  his  deal- 
ing all  through  life-1— who  had  "  no  mania  for  hypotheses,"  and  yet  was 
actively  constructive  in  his  teachings.  Dr.  Edwin  H.  Griffin,  Dean  of 
Johns  Hopkins  University,  eulogized  "  The  Established  Teacher,"  quot- 
ing, in  connection  with  a  reference  to  his  spirit  of  conscientious  scholar- 
ship, a  remark  of  Dr.  Hodge's,  that  "  a  knowledge  of  Greek  grammar  was 
the  best  preparation  for  heaven."  Dr.  John  Fox,  of  Brooklyn,  made  some 
happy  allusions  to  "  The  Learned  Doctor,"  who  had  impressed  the  stu- 
dents who  came  in  contact  with  him  with  a  profounder  sense  of  the  real 
meaning  of  "  sacred  letters."  Dr.  William  M.  Paxton  concluded  the 
speeches  with  a  very  appreciative  tribute  to  Dr.  Green  as  "The  Head  of 
the  Faculty,"  calling  attention  to  the  fact  that  the  Princeton  Seminary 
Faculty,  all  elect  men  in  two  senses — chosen  both  by  Seminary  and  As- 
sembly— were,  with  one  exception,  pupils  of  Dr.  Green.  The  growth 
of  Princeton  Seminary  was  due  largely  to  the  fact  that  it  had  always  stood 
for  something  definite  in  thought  and  doctrine,  and  had  been  greatly  con- 
tributed to  by  the  indefatigable  labors  of  the  professor  whom  all  so  hon- 
ored, whose  character  was  made  up  of  the  rocks  of  a  solid  granite.  The 
benediction  was  then  pronounced  by  the  Rev.  Prof.  Arthur  J.  Mason,  of 
the  Church  of  England,  who  has  been  delivering  the  Bishop  Paddock 
lectures  in  the  General  Theological  Seminary,  in  New  York.  The  pub- 
lic exercises  of  the  "Jubilee"  thus  concluded  were  followed  by  a  recep- 
tion at  the  residence  of  Dr.  Green.  It  was  an  inspiring  day,  a  memor- 
able occasion.  And  in  order  that  the  interest  then  displayed  may  not 
wholly  evaporate  in  sentiment  and  speech-making,  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees of  the  Seminary,  as  announced  by  Dean  Murray,  have,  with  the 
concurrence  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  resolved  to  make  an  effort  to 
raise  the  sum  of  $100,000  toward  a  William  Henry  Green  Me- 
morial Professorship  of    Semitic  Languages,   in  favor  of  which  project, 


APPENDIX  177 

said  the  Dean,  the  addresses  of  the  day  had  all  been  but  so  many  solid 
arguments. 

Note  from  The  New  York  Observer  of  May  14,  1896. 

A  correspondent  well  says  of  last  week's  memorable  jubilee  at  Prince- 
ton :  "  There  was  a  grandeur  and  deep  significance  attached  to  the  semi- 
centennial of  Professor  Green,  of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  which 
render  it  a  unique  celebration.  Other  commemorations  of  a  half  century 
spent  in  a  professorial  chair  have  been  connected  with  literature,  science, 
or  theology  ;  this  was  restricted  to  the  Bible.  The  conviction  deepened, 
as  the  grand  addresses  one  after  the  other  were  delivered,  that  these  most 
sincere  encomiums,  so  well  deserved,  derived  really  their  inmost  signifi- 
cance from  the  fact  that  Dr.  Green  had  devoted  himself  for  fifty  years  to 
the  study  and  exposition  of  the  Old  Testament.  And  this  conviction  was 
wrought  into  enthusiasm,  as  more  and  more  the  thought  possessed  every 
heart,  that  at  this  particular  juncture,  when  the  Old  Testament  is  sorely 
assailed  by  the  destructive  higher  criticism,  Dr.  Green  is  the  giant  de- 
fender of  the  integrity  and  genuine  inspiration  of  the  text.  The  attempt 
has  been  made  persistently  to  disparage  his  powerful  arguments  by  assert- 
ing that  Dr.  Green  is  the  only  great  scholar  who  at  all  clings  to  the  belief 
of  the  Church  at  large.  Even  if  that  were  true,  so  far  from  depreciating 
his  fame,  it  magnifies  his  position.  For,  as  Rev.  Dr.  Booth  admirably  ex- 
pressed it,  {  he  is  Athanasius  against  the  world.'  That  very  large  con- 
course of  pastors  and  distinguished  divines,  those  epistles  congratulatory 
from  theological  schools  of  America  and  Europe,  were  expressions  of  the 
faith  of  the  Church  that  the  Bible  is  the  Word  of  God.  The  occasion  was 
great,  the  man  was  greater,  but  the  Bible  was  the  greatest."  Like  hun- 
dreds of  others,  our  correspondent  feels  the  inspiration  which  the  occasion 
afforded,  but  not  all  who  were  there  could  sum  it  up  so  neatly. 

The  Independent  of  May  14,  1896. 

A   CONSERVATIVE   SCHOLAR. 

It  is  not  always  true  that  an  old  man  is  a  conservative  man  ;  and  yet 
it  is  what  might  fairly  have  been  expected  that  Professor  William  H. 
Green,  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  whose  connection  with  Princeton  is  re- 
ported in  another  column,  should  be  recognized  as  the  leading  conserva- 
tive theologian  in  the  United  States.  We  use  the  word  in  its  larger  sense, 
as  embracing  not  simply  dogmatics,  but  all  those  studies  which  have  to  do 
with  Christian  faith. 

Since  Professor  Green  became  an  Instructor  in  Princeton  College,  fifty 
years  ago,  there  has  been  an  immense  change  in  the  attitude  of  the  Chris- 
tian  public  toward  the   study  of  the  Scriptures,  and   our  churches  and 


178  APPENDIX 

theological  seminaries  have  generally,  to  some  extent,  recognized  and 
accepted  the  newer  views.  They  have  by  no  means  given  up  the  super- 
naturalism  of  their  faith.  They  are  no  less  earnest  than  of  old  in  their  ac- 
ceptance of  Jesus  Christ  as  the  crucified  and  risen  Saviour  ;  but  the  critical 
views  which  have  been  developed  among  German,  French,  and  English 
scholars  have  been  very  widely  accepted  in  as  far  as  the  composition  and 
date  of  the  Old  Testament  writings  are  concerned.  Andover  and  New 
Haven,  Union  Seminary  and  Chicago  University  illustrate  the  attitude  of 
three  great  denominations  toward  the  higher  criticism.  It  would  now  be 
impossible,  however  much  individuals  may  protest,  to  shut  out  from  uni- 
versities, theological  seminaries,  and  churches  those  who  accept  the  com- 
posite and  late  authorship  of  the  Pentateuch. 

But  to  all  this  new  drift  Professor  Green  has  presented  a  constant  and 
stiff  resistance.  He  is  the  incarnation  of  the  best  spirit  of  the  old  scholar- 
ship ;  in  fact,  he  is  a  conservative  Hebrew  scholar,  pure  and  simple,  and 
such  is  his  record.  We  doubt  if  his  associates  from  boyhood  really  know 
him  in  any  other  relation.  But  he  is,  as  we  have  said,  the  best  type  of 
such  a  scholar — honest,  fair,  clear-headed,  just  such  an  opponent  as  a  par- 
tisan would  not  like  to  meet.  It  is  hardly  true  that  he  is  alone  in  his  theo- 
logical attitude.  His  position,  we  suppose,  is  very  much  that  of  Howard 
Osgood,  the  Professor  of  Old  Testament  Exegesis  at  Rochester  Seminary, 
and  about  that  of  the  late  Professor  Bissell.  Some  of  our  theological 
seminaries,  like  Princeton  and  McCormick,  give  no  hospitality  to  the 
new  criticism. 

Professor  Green  has  just  now  the  pleasure  of  seeing  a  certain  reaction 
among  scholars  at  home  and  abroad  against  the  extreme  views  of  the 
critics  whom  he  has  so  ably  controverted.  There  is  a  tendency  not  so 
much  to  refer  the  Pentateuch  to  the  time  of  Moses,  but  to  carry  back  its 
material  to  a  considerably  earlier  period,  and  to  recognize  a  literary  cult- 
ure which  existed  in  Palestine  and  the  neighboring  countries  in  the  times 
of  Moses,  such  as  would  allow  a  literary  tradition  and  the  preservation  of 
documents  and  books.  At  the  same  time  we  are  beginning  to  learn  that 
the  faith  of  Christianity  does  not  depend  upon  one  view  or  the  other  which 
is  in  dispute  among  the  critics  ;  and  various  views  are  held  by  those  who 
are  most  devoted  in  their  allegiance  to  the  Christian  faith.  If  it  is  true 
that  progress  must  be  made  by  radicals,  it  is  also  true  that  it  is  the  con- 
servatives who  prevent  them  from  making  a  wreck  of  sound  scholarship  ; 
and  no  man  in  this  country  has  done  a  more  worthy  and  noble  service  in 
this  line  than  Professor  Green  during  the  fifty  years  since  he  became  a 
teacher  at  Princeton.  During  this  time  he  has  made  the  most  conservative 
views  not  only  respectable,  but  honored,  by  the  intelligent  way  in  which 
he  has  defended  them  ;  and  if  he  has  made  the  path  of  the  higher  critics 
hard,  he  has  done  it  with  such  courtesy  and  such  strength  as  always  to  retain 
their  respect.     Sound  scholarship  owes  him  a  large  debt  ;  and  Princeton 


APPENDIX  179 

Seminary  and  the  multitude  of  friends  who  were  called  last  week  to  Prince- 
ton have  given  Professor  Green  no  higher  honor  than  he  has  justly  earned. 

The  Presbyterian  and  Reformed  Review,  July,  1896. 

THE  JUBILEE   OF   PROFESSOR   WILLIAM   HENRY   GREEN. 

The  intimate  relations  between  Dr.  Green  and  the  editors  of  this 
Review,  his  frequent  contributions  to  its  pages,  and  the  exceptional 
value  of  his  services  to  theological  science  make  it  especially  appro- 
priate that  we  add  our  voice  to  the  chorus  of  congratulations  which 
have  lately  been  tendered  him  upon  his  long  and  eminent  career  as  a 
Teacher  in  Princeton  Seminary.  The  authorities  of  the  Seminary,  as 
early  as  the  autumn  of  1895,  determined  upon  this  commemoration, 
and  resolved  that  it  be  held  in  connection  with  the  eighty-fourth  com- 
mencement of  the  Institution,  on  May  5th  following.  The  particular 
event  celebrated  was  the  accession  of  Dr.  Green  to  the  Seminary's 
Faculty  of  Instruction,  as  Tutor  in  Hebrew,  in  1846.  Mr.  Green,  at  that 
time,  had  just  attained  his  majority,  and  already  had  not  only  been 
graduated  at  both  Lafayette  College  and  Princeton  Seminary,  but  had 
also  spent  three  years  as  Instructor  in  the  former  Institution.  With  the 
exception  of  two  years,  during  which  he  was  the  pastor  of  the  Central 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Philadelphia,  Princeton  has  since  then  been  his 
home,  and  he  has  been  one  of  the  Faculty  of  the  Seminary.  Since  1851 
he  has  occupied  the  chair  of  Oriental  and  Old  Testament  Literature. 
His  services  to  the  Seminary,  as  teacher  and  administrator,  have  continued 
longer  than  those  of  any  other  professor,  except  the  late  Dr.  Charles 
Hodge,  and  it  is  the  unanimous  judgment  of  the  friends  of  the  institution 
that  in  his  own  department  they  have  been  as  valuable  as  those  of  any  of 
his  distinguished  predecessors.  He  brought  to  the  work  to  which  he  was 
called  the  highest  ideal,  and  he  has  striven,  with  a  lofty  character  and 
sensitive  conscientiousness  and  exceptional  gifts,  to  realize  it  in  his 
labors  in  the  lecture-room.  At  the  close  of  a  half-century  he  is  known 
as  one  of  the  most  illustrious  teachers  of  the  Semitic  languages  and  Old 
Testament  criticism  and  exegesis  the  century  has  given  to  the  world. 
His  literary  product  has  been  large  and  valuable,  and  has  embraced  a 
wide  range  of  themes,  though  largely  confined,  of  course,  within  the  limits 
of  the  general  subject  indicated  in  the  title  of  his  chair.  Though  not 
seeking  recognition  as  a  man  of  affairs,  he  has  been  so  valuable  as  a  coun- 
sellor as  to  have  occupied  positions  like  the  Chairmanship  of  the  Old 
Testament  Committee  of  the  American  Bible  Revision  Commission,  and 
the  Moderatorship  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
and  to  have  been  invited  by  the  unanimous  and  cordial  vote  of  its  Trus- 
tees to  the  Presidency  of  Princeton  College. 


iy°  APPENDIX 

May  5th,  on  which  the  celebration  was  held,  gave  all  that  could 
have  been  desired  in  temperature  and  sunshine  to  the  purposes  of 
this  high  academic  function.  The  regular  and  special  trains  brought  to 
Princeton  an  exceptionally  large  number  of  the  Alumni  of  the  Seminary, 
the  Moderator  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  the 
survivors  of  the  distinguished  scholars  who  had  been  his  colleagues  on  the 
Biblical  Revision  Committee,  and  many  eminent  men  as  representatives 
of  universities  and  theological  seminaries.  A  large  number  of  letters 
were  received  from  institutions  of  learning  and  individuals  alike,  convey- 
ing to  Dr.  Green  not  only  their  congratulations  on  the  happy  completion 
of  so  long  a  term  of  labor,  but  also  their  appreciation  of  the  exceptional 
importance  of  the  work  which  Dr.  Green  has  accomplished. 

The  addresses  were  singularly  felicitous,  and  separately  and  as  a  whole 
were  a  noble  tribute  to  the  high  character  and  distinguished  career  of  a 
great  scholar,  teacher,  and  divine.  Any  attempt  to  give  an  account  of 
their  contents  here  is  superseded  by  the  intention  of  the  Trustees  of  the 
Seminary  to  publish  them  in  full.  When  the  volume  appears  we  hope 
to  recur  to  the  subject.  Meanwhile  we  content  ourselves  with  expressing 
our  own  feelings  of  gratitude  to  Almighty  God  for  so  prolonging  the 
life  of  His  servant  that  he  has  been  able  to  see  in  the  manifestations  of 
this  day  some  of  the  fruit  of  his  strenuous  labors,  tireless  devotion,  and 
steadfast  loyalty  to  God  and  the  truth.  The  times  in  which  his  lot  has 
been  cast  have  been  marked  by  much  doubt  and  defection,  and  it  has 
been  his  part  to  stand  sometimes  almost  alone  among  scholars  in  his  own 
department  for  what  he  deemed  essential  truth.  His  praise  is  that,  amid 
all  the  turmoil  of  such  a  period, 

Unmoved, 
Unshaken,  unseduc'd,  unterrify'd, 
His  loyalty  he  kept,  his  love,  his  zeal ; 
Nor  number,  nor  example  with  him  wrought 
To  swerve  from  truth,  or  change  his  constant  mind 
Though  single. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY 


PREPARED    BY 


REV.   JOSEPH    H.    DULLES, 
Librarian  of  Princeton   Theological  Seminary. 


A  List  of  the  Published  Writings  of  Professor  William  Henry 
Green,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary. 

The  following  list  is  arranged  chronologically  ;  the  bound  volumes  are 
indicated  by  Capitals,  and  the  periodicals  in  which  the  various  articles 
appear  by  italics.  At  the  close  are  placed  Dr.  Green's  expositions  of  the 
International  Sunday  School  Lessons,  as  these  appeared  in  The  Sunday 
School  Times. 

The  Abundance  of  the  Sea  :  a  sermon  preached  on  the  13th  of  November, 
1850,  at  the  ordination  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  H.  Newton,  Chaplain  of 
the  American  Seamen's  Friend  Society.  Philadelphia,  1850,  22  pp., 
8vo,  paper. 

Keil  on  Joshua.  Biblical  Repertory  and  Princeton  Review  j  vol.  22  (1850), 
pp.  59-87. 

The  same.     Reprinted  in  The  British  and  Foreign  Evangelical 

Review,  vol.  1  (1852),  pp.  380-404. 

Our  National  Union  :  a  sermon  preached  on  Thanksgiving  Day,  Decem- 
ber 12,  1850.     Philadelphia,  1850,  26  pp.,  8vo,  paper. 

The  same.     Bound  with  The  Abundance  of  the  Sea  ;  pp.  23-48. 

See  above. 

Inaugural  Discourse.  Delivered  at  Princeton,  September  30,  1851,  before 
the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Seminary  [on  becoming  Professor  of 
Biblical  and  Oriental  Literature].  Philadelphia,  185 1,  pp.  37-71  [of 
Discourses,  etc.],  8vo,  paper. 

Delitzsch  on  Habakkuk.  Biblical  Repertory  and  Princeton  Review  ;  vol. 
v  23  (185 1 ),  pp.  67-94. 

The  same.     Reprinted   in   The  British  and  Foreign  Evangelical 

Review  ;  vol.  2  (1853),  pp.  590-612. 


1 82  BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Kurtz  on  the  Old  Covenant.    Biblical  Repertory  and  Princeton  Review  / 

vol.  23  (1851),  pp.  451-486. 
The   same.     Reprinted   in   The  British  and  Foreign  Evangelical 

Review ;  vol.  2  (1853),  pp.  129-159. 
The  Prophet   Obadiah,  expounded  by  C.  P.  Caspari.     Biblical  Repertory 

and  Princeton  Review  ;  vol.  24  (1852),  pp.  226-240. 
The  same.     Reprinted    in   The  British  and  Foreign  Evangelical 

Review ;  vol.  2  (1853),  pp.  399-411. 
The  Jews  at  K'ai-fung-foo.     Biblical  Repertory  and  Princeton  Review ; 

vol.  24  (1852),  pp.  240-250. 
The  Destiny  of  Man  :  An  oration  delivered  before  the  Alumni  of  Lafayette 

College,  July  26,  1853.     Philadelphia,  1853,  24  pp.,  8vo,  paper. 
Theology  of  the  Old  Testament.     Biblical  Repertory  and  Princeton  Re- 
view ;  vol.  25  (1853),  pp.  102-120. 
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The  Septuagint  and  Jeroboam.      The  Sunday  School  Times  ;  June  20,  1885. 

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The  Finding  of  the  Law.      The  Sunday  School  Times  ;  December  12,  1885. 

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its  Bearing  on  Scripture.  The  Presbyterian  Review  ;  vol.  7,  pp.  170- 
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Review  of  W.  L.  Pearson's  The  Prophecy  of  Joel :  its  Unity,  its  Aim,  and 
the  Age  of  its  Composition.  The  Presbyterian  Review  ;  vol.  7,  p.  381 
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Hosea  8:12  and  its  Testimony  to  the  Pentateuch.  The  Presbyterian  Re- 
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Composition  of  the  Hexateuch.  Translated  by  P.  H.  Wicksteed.  The 
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Exodus;  January-June,  1881  ;  April-June,  1887,  and  January-March, 

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Leviticus  ;  January-March,  1887,  and  July-September,  1888. 
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Joshua;  July-September,  1883,  and  October-December,  1888. 
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I.  Samuel  ;   July-December,  1883,  and  July-September,  1889. 

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I.  Kings  ;  October-December,  1884  ;  October-December,  1889  ;  and 

January-March,  1891. 

II.  Kings;  October-December,  1885  ;  January-March,  1886;  and 
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I.  Chronicles;  October-December,  1884. 

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Nehemiah;  January-March,  1886. 
Esther;  January-March,  1886. 

Psalms;  July-September,  1884;  January-March,  1888;  October- 
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Isaiah  ;  October-December,  1885  ;  April-June,  1890;  January-June, 
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Jeremiah  ;   January-March,  1892. 

Ezekiel  ;   January-March,  1892. 

Daniel ;  January-March,  1886  ;  April-September,  1890;  and  April- 
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Hosea  ;  April-June,  1891. 

Amos  ;   April-June,  1891. 

Jonah  ;  October-December,  1885,  and  April-June,  1891. 

Malachi ;  January-March,  1886. 


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